from drawings made by Harding, Nash, Haghe,
Walton, and other clever artists, in which all the raciness, the
smartness, and the beauty of touch, are apparent, which hitherto could
only be found in the original drawing. [Picture: Arundel House--front]
[Picture: Arundel House--back] In fact, lithotint was not a translation,
but a multiplication of the original; and its discovery, or, rather, the
proper application of knowledge, became an eventful era in the history of
the fine arts.
Arundel House, a few yards beyond Dungannon House, stands on the same
side of the road, opposite to Parson's Green Lane, which leads to the
King's Road. It is a house of considerable antiquity, judging from the
stone mullions brought to light by some repairs,--probably as old as the
time of Henry VIII.; although the brick front, as shown above, appears to
be the work of the latter part of the seventeenth century.
The back of Arundel House is quite different in character, and retains an
old porch leading into the garden. At the farther end of the garden a
venerable yew-tree arbour exists; and not [Picture: Arundel House porch
and Yew Tree Arbour] far from it used to stand a picturesque old pump,
with the date 1758 close to the spout; which pump is now removed, and a
new one put in its place. Upon a leaden cistern at the back of Arundel
House, the following monogram occurs beneath an earl's coronet, with the
date 1703:--[Picture: Old Pump and monogram] Notwithstanding that this is
obviously compounded of the letters L. I. C., or C. I. L., and at the
first glance with the connexion of an earl's coronet and a date would
appear to present no difficulty respecting the correct appropriation, I
must confess my inability to state to whom the monogram belonged. For
the name of Arundel I am equally unable to account. No mention whatever
is made of this house by Mr. Faulkner; nor does the name of Arundel occur
in the parish records of Fulham, although in 1724, as before mentioned,
Stanley Grove House appears to have been in the possession of Henry
Arundel. In the midst of this obscurity, the residence of the late Mr.
Hallam, the historian, who occupied Arundel House in 1819, invests it
with a literary association of interest.
On the opposite side of the road is the carriage entrance to Park House,
which stands in Parson's Green Lane. A stone tablet has been let into
one of the piers of the gateway, inscribed
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