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to one of them, and evidently was fashioned in the seventeenth century.
The celebrated bookseller, Jacob Tonson, lived for some time at North
End. At York Cottage, which is on the right hand side of the road, about
a quarter of a mile from the church, resided for many years Mr. J. B.
Pyne, the landscape painter. At a short distance beyond, the road from
Old Brompton crosses into Fulham Fields. Here, at one corner, is a house
(Hermitage Lodge) which was originally constructed as stables to the
residence of Foote, the dramatist and comedian, {196} which still stands
on the opposite side of the road leading to Brompton, and where he lived
for many years, expending large sums upon its improvement. It is now
called "The Hermitage," and is completely surrounded by a large garden
enclosed by high walls.

[Picture: Hermitage Lodge (1844) and The Hermitage]

Exactly opposite to this house, in the angle of the road, stands an old
house in a moderate-sized garden (Cambridge Lodge). Francis Bartolozzi,
the celebrated engraver, who arrived in England in 1764, came to reside
here in 1777. He was born at Florence in 1730, and died at Lisbon in
1813. His son, Gaetano Bartolozzi, father to the late Madame Vestris,
was born in 1757, and died August 25th, 1813. Passing up the road,
beside market gardens, is the old garden wall of Normand House, with some
curious brick gates (now closed in): the house is very old; the date,
1661, is in the centre arch, over the principal gateway, and it is said
to have been used as a hospital for persons recovering from the Great
Plague in 1665. [Picture: Bartolozzi's House] Sir E. Bulwer Lytton has
resided here. In 1813 "it was appropriated for the reception of insane
ladies" (Faulkner), and it is now a lunatic asylum for ladies, with the
name of "Talfourd" on a brass plate. A little further on the road, out
of which we have turned, is a cottage to the right named Wentworth
Cottage. Here Mr. and Mrs. S. C. Hall once resided. The willow in front
of the cottage was planted by them from a slip of that over the grave of
Napoleon at St. Helena. The land opposite this cottage is now to be let
on building lease. This district, now known as "Fulham Fields," was
formerly called "No Man's Land," and according to Faulkner, the local
historian, contained, in 1813, "about six houses." One of these was "an
ancient house, once the residence of the family of Plumbe," which was
pulled dow