Survey of London, Volume 05 (of 14), the parish of St. Giles-in-the-Fields, part 2

Note 259 — XXXVII.—Nos. 55 and 56, GREAT QUEEN STREET.

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The statement seems to have originated with Horace Walpole (Anecdotes of Painting, Wornum ed. (1888), II., pp. 209–210).

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