DERBY _street_, 1. Aldersgate street, 2. Rosemary lane.
DEVEREUX _court_, 1. Basinghall street. 2. Without Temple Bar, near the place where the Lord Essex’s mansion house formerly stood.
DEVONSHIRE _court_, Pickax street; or rather Long lane, West Smithfield.
_Devonshire House._ _S. Wale delin._ _B. Green sculp._ ]
DEVONSHIRE HOUSE, in Piccadilly, is the residence of his Grace the Duke of Devonshire when in London. The house is built principally of brick, and though plain is very elegant and well proportioned, and the rooms of state are very rich and magnificent. The offices on each side are properly subordinate to the house, so as to make a consistent whole. The collection of pictures, with which this house is adorned, is surpassed by very few either at home or abroad; of which the following is an exact list.
Moses and the burning bush, Jac. Bassan. Landscape, Claude Lorrain.
Landscape, St. John in the wilderness, Titian.
Sine Baccho & Cerere friget Venus, Albano.
Two Portraits, Lord Falkland and Col. Cavendish, Van Dyck.
A drunken conversation, M. Angelo Caravaggio.
Susannah and the Elders, Annib. Carrache.
Christ and the woman of Samaria, F. Mola.
Portrait of an Abbess, over the door, Van Dyck.
Death of St. Peter, over the chimney, Donato Creti.
A woman Saint taken up to heaven, Lanfranc.
A beggar boy with a bird’s nest, Amoroso.
Two portraits, one of Titian, the other Carlo Cignani by himself.
Moses rescues the Priest of Midian’s daughters from the fury of the shepherds, Ciro Ferri.
Several portraits, and two historical pictures,
Mars and Venus, and Venus and Cupid, both by Vanloo.
The transfiguration, over the chimney, Camillo Procacini.
Temptation of St. Anthony, a landscape, Teniers.
Landscape, Paul Brill, figures Elsheimer.
The royal yacht, over the door, Vandevelde.
In the Hall several portraits of Vandyke, Sir Peter Lely, Sir Godfrey Kneller, &c.
Several portraits, among which are historical and other subjects, viz.
In the Lower Room among many others are the following.
Consecration of Thomas a Becket, J. Van Eyck.[4]
The presentation of Christ in the Temple, Hans Holbein.
The beasts going into the ark. Jacopo Bassano.
This picture is supposed to have formerly belonged to the Arundel collection, and from thence came to Henry Duke of Norfolk, from whose steward Mr. Fox, it was bought by Mr. Sykes, who afterwards sold it to the Duke of Devonshire, 1722.