View through to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Martin_in_the_Fields" class="extiw" title="w:St Martin in the Fields">St Martin in the Fields</a> from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pall_Mall,_London" class="extiw" title="w:Pall Mall, London">Pall Mall East</a>, newly opened up in 1828 as part of the clearance that would lead to the creation of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trafalgar_Square" class="extiw" title="w:Trafalgar Square">Trafalgar Square</a>.  To the left are the stables of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King%27s_Mews" class="extiw" title="w:King's Mews">King's Mews</a>, rebuilt in 1732 to designs by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Kent" class="extiw" title="w:William Kent">William Kent</a>, which had previously faced onto a large closed exercise yard. (cf <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Royal_Stables_in_the_Mews,_Charing_Cross._Etching_by_Cook,_1793.jpg" title="File:Royal Stables in the Mews, Charing Cross. Etching by Cook, 1793.jpg">1793 view</a> and <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survey_of_London" class="extiw" title="w:Survey of London">Survey of London</a></i>, vol 20, plate <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=68434">4</a>). By the early 19th century the buildings were being used "for the storage of public records and even, for a time, as a menagerie". <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=68407">[1]</a>. They would soon be demolished to make way for the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Gallery" class="extiw" title="w:National Gallery">National Gallery</a>. In the foreground to the right is the entrance portico to the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_College_of_Physicians" class="extiw" title="w:Royal College of Physicians">Royal College of Physicians</a>, built 1824–27, now part of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada_House" class="extiw" title="w:Canada House">Canada House</a>.
<bdi><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Thomas_H._Shepherd" class="extiw" title="w:en:Thomas H. Shepherd"><span title="English topographical watercolourist">Thomas Hosmer Shepherd</span></a>
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