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George I Slides 4 2020 10/12/2020 Palaces Kensington Palace with the statue of William III. He and Mary II bought it from the Earl of Nottingham and used Wren to turn it into a palace. George employed William Kent to improve and decorate the royal apartments from 1722 onwards. He also added a new wing for his mistress 1 2 C18th view of Kensington Palace Kent’s Cupola Room 1722-5 painted by Richard Cattermole in 1817 3 4 The Cupola Room today Kent’s King’s Great Drawing Room painted by Charles Wild in 1816 5 6 1 10/12/2020 Ceiling of the King’s Great Drawing Room William Kent by William Aikman c William Kent by Benedetto Luti 1718 1723-5 NPG 7 8 Kent’s Great Staircase 1725-7 painted by Charles Wild in 1819 Great Staircase Today showing Tijou’s ironwork 9 10 Mahomet and Mustafa the king’s Turkish servants and Ulric his Polish page Kent’s Presence Chamber painted by James Stephanoff in 1816 11 12 2 10/12/2020 John Vanbrugh’s New Kitchen 1717 painted by James Stephanoff in 1819 13 14 Candlesticks 1727 by John Gumley for Kensington Side table by John Gumley 1727 for Kensington 15 16 Pier Table by James Moore 1720 for Kensington 17 18 3 10/12/2020 James Moore’s Pier Table 1723-4 at Kensington 19 20 Michael Rysbrack’s Roman Marriage of 1722 for Kensington James Moore’s Pier Table 1723 at Kensington 21 22 Henry Wise designer of the gardens at Kensington Palace originally for Queen Anne but continued to 1728, painted by Sir Godfrey Kneller c 1715 Kensington Gardens in 1736 23 24 4 10/12/2020 Kensington palace and gardens before Wise’s alterations Kensington Palace and Gardens by Johannes Kip in 1724 after Wise’s alterations for George 25 26 John Rocque’s View of Kensington Palace 1739 Another view of the gardens c 1730 27 28 St James’s Palace in George’s day. George used St James’s as his main residence whilst in London. After quarrelling with the Prince of Wales he expelled him and the Princess but kept their children under his control including the new born Prince George William who died aged View of London and St James’s Park c 1727 by Johannes Kip part of panorama started in 1715 3 months 29 30 5 10/12/2020 Benjamin Pyne candlestick of 1717 for the Chapel Royal Whitehall, Royal Collection James Fraillon 1716 inkstand, Ewer with GR monogram from 1714 by Francis Royal Collection Garthorne, Royal Collection Sauce boats by James Fraillon 1717-18, British Museum 31 32 Henry Hulsberg’s designs for Whitehall after Inigo Jones’s for Charles I in the 1630s and 1640s published in Colen Campbell's Vitruvius Britannicus 1717. The palace was never rebuilt Nicholas Clausen 1721 salt, Royal Collection following the fire in 1698 33 34 Prince of Wales’s bedchamber later the Queen’s state bedchamber at Hampton Court painted by Richard Cattermole in c 1816 View of Hampton Court painted by Jan Griffier 1710 35 36 6 10/12/2020 Sir James Thornhill’s design for the ceiling of Maquette of the previous the Prince of Wales’s bedchamber at sketch Hampton Court c 1715 37 38 Queen Anne's state bed at Hampton Court by Richard Roberts and Hamden Reeve c 1714-15 Chair for Hampton Court by Richard Roberts 1717, Royal Collection 39 40 Stools probably by Richard Roberts for Hampton Court 1726, Royal Collection Stool probably by Richard Roberts for the Prince of Wales at Hampton Court, Royal Collection 41 42 7 10/12/2020 Tapestries of Alexander the Great copied from originals by Charles Le Brun purchased by George for Hampton Court 1 Alexander's triumphal entry into Babylon, seated in a chariot, with a boy 2 Battle with King Porus of India, in which an elephant is strangling a horse with its trunk riding on an elephant 43 44 5 Alexander meeting the Chaldean prophets on his way to Babylon 3 Alexander with his horse Bucephalus, taking 4 Alexander's visit to Diogenes in his tub leave of Hephaestion 45 46 6 The Battle of the Granicus 7 Alexander and Hephaestion visiting the tent of the wife of Darius 47 48 8 10/12/2020 Jan Griffier the Elder A View of Windsor Castle, Royal Collection View of Windsor Castle from the North possibly by Jan Griffier I or Jan Wyck 49 50 Robert Griffier Windsor Castle from the River Windsor Castle from the River by Peter Tillemans 51 52 Don Rodrigo Calderon on Horseback by Rubens bought for Windsor 1723 from John Law, Royal Collection The Queen's Ballroom at Windsor Castle originally commissioned by George painted by Charles Wild in 1817 53 54 9 10/12/2020 Literature & Entertainment Alexander Pope by Charles Jervas c 1715 Alexander Pope by Michael Dahl 1727 55 56 Sir Samuel Garth by Godfrey Kneller. In 1717 Garth published the translation of Ovid’s Metamorphoses based on Dryden, Pope, Addison, Congreve and others. He was a fellow member of the Scriblerus Club with Pope, Gay and Swift, founded in 1714 An early edition (1752) of Pope’s translation of the Odyssey. Pope’s Iliad was published between 1715 and 1720 and the Odyssey followed in 1725-6 57 58 A depiction of the story of Pygmalion from Ovid’s Metamorphoses, Pygmalion adoring his statue by Jean Raoux 1717 Poems written in 1720 59 60 10 10/12/2020 Gay’s play with contributions from Pope and Dr John Arbuthnot had a record 7 sell out performances at Drury Lane and has been revived regularly in modern times Scene from Three Hours After Marriage for Jacob Bronowski’s Ascent of Man in 1973. Dr Fossil and Plotwell discuss Alchemy and Astronomy. 61 62 Revivals of Gay’s 1717 play Three Hours After Marriage written with Pope and Dr John Arbuthnot. The play satirises the government but also scientists: Dr Fossil is a caricature of Newton 63 64 An early satirical print by William Hogarth published in 1724: A Just View of the British Stage Colley Cibber, the original Plotwell Playbill for one of Cibber’s Plays in 1725 65 66 11 10/12/2020 Joseph Addison by Sir Godfrey Kneller Sir Richard Steele by Jonathan Richardson. Addison was an essayist, playwright, poet Steele was knighted by George I in 1715 and Addison and Steele circle of Kneller. Together they founded three periodicals including the and politician rising to Secretary of Sate in made manager of the Theatre Royal Drury Spectator in 1711 which was still published in George’s reign. Both were members of the Kit- 1717 Lane Kat Club founded by Addison and Swift. They fell out over Stanhope’s Peerage Bill in 1719. 67 68 Sir Thomas Sebright, Sir John Bland and others by Benjamin Ferrers 1720. Both were MPs in George’s reign. The gathering is reminiscent of the Kit-Kat and Scriblerus Clubs, the former had Swift, Addison, Steele, Congreve, Walpole, Stanhope, Newcastle, Vanbrugh and Burlington and the latter Pope, Gay, Harley and St John as members. 1788 edition of the Spectator reprinting Addison and Steele’s early articles 69 70 Voltaire by Nicolas de Largillière c 1724. Voltaire took refuge in England 1726-9 and befriended Pope, Swift, Gay, Mary Wortley Montagu and the Duchess of Marlborough. He was in London at the time of Newton’s funeral and met his physician who described the great man’s last hours. Hogarth c 1720 “A game of draughts interrupted.” The figures have been identified as Pope and Arbuthnot on the far side of the table with Count Viviani entering on the right, at Daniel Button's Coffee House in Russell Street Covent Garden 71 72 12 10/12/2020 Daniel Defoe made his name as a Jonathan Swift was a pamphleteer and also pamphleteer, worked as a spy for Robert worked for Robert Harley but made an enemy Harley, wrote a periodical The Review and of Queen Anne so became Dean of St Patrick’s became a novelist with Robinson Crusoe Dublin which was outside her gift. He is best (1719) and Moll Flanders (1722) his most remembered for his novel Gulliver’s Travels The inspiration for Robinson Crusoe, Selkirk was abandoned on a desert island from 1704 to 1709 successful (1726) 73 74 Robinson Crusoe published 1719 75 76 Crusoe’s Island Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe published 1722 77 78 13 10/12/2020 Defoe’s Journal of the Plague Year published 1722 Defoe’s Tour through Great Britain went through several editions after it was published in 1726 79 80 Swift published Gulliver’s Travels as if they were Gulliver’s reminiscences of real travels in 1726 81 82 Gulliver Addressing the Houyhnhnms by Sawrey Gilpin 1769 Gulliver taking his final leave of the land of the Houyhnhnms by Sawrey Gilpin 1769 83 84 14 10/12/2020 Jehan-Georges Vibert Gulliver and the Lilliputians c 1880 Gulliver in Brobdingnag by Richard Redgrave c 1840, V&A 85 86 Dinner party by Marcellus Laroon the Younger c 1719- 25 presented to George I in 1725 Bartholomew Fair, original design for a fan of 1720s with booths including the peep-show of 'The Siege of Gibraltar', Lee and Harper's presentation of 'Judith and Holofernes', Faux's 'Dexterity of Hand' and his 'Famous posture master’. 87 88 St Bartholomew's Fair in 1721 reproduced by John Frederick Setchel, bookseller and stationer of King Street Covent Garden in 1824 with description Southwark Fair 1731 by William Hogarth 89 90 15 10/12/2020 Frost Fair on Thames in the winter of 1715-16 Frost Fair of 1716, British Museum 91 92 Jan Griffier Entertainments in Greenwich Park Covent Garden in reign of George I by Jacob van Aken in England from 1720 93 94 Van Aken The Music Party 1725 Saying Grace by Van Aken 1720 95 96 16 10/12/2020 Peter Tillemans Foxhunting 1720 The King’s Plate at Newmarket by Peter Tillemans 1725 97 98 Newmarket by Peter Tillemans John Wootton The Duke of Hamilton’s Grey Racehorse, 'Victorious,’ at Newmarket 1725 99 100 Painting Sculpture & James Thornhill self portrait Architecture 101 102 17 10/12/2020 Britannia receiving homage from the four continents for the Royal State coach by Thornhill c 1718 Dome of St Paul’s Cathedral.
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