- Title
- [A drawn View of the back of Whitehall, the Treasury, Horse Guards, &c, by Miller].
- Creator
- Miller, James, active 1773-1791, artist.
- Publication details
- [around 1778-1780]
- Physical details
- 1 drawing : pen and black ink and watercolour ; sheet 45.8 x 57.2 cm
- Description
- View of the back of Whitehall with figures sitting in the foreground; ruins in the middle ground; a horse and cart on the right. Paper bears a Whatman watermark.
- Place
- London (England)
- Additional information
- Title taken from 'the Catalogue of Maps, Prints, Drawings, etc., forming the geographical and topographical collection attached to the Library of his late Majesty King George the third, etc'. Similar in format to 'View of Dean's Yard, Westminster London' by James Miller illustrated in Mallalieu, H.L., 'The Dictionary of British Watercolour Artists up to 1920', Vol II, (London, 1979) p. 456. Two views of Whitehall by Miller are recorded at the Royal Society of Artists in 1778 (no. 133) and 1780 (no. 163), see Graves, Algernon, 'The Society of Artists of Great Britain, 1760-1791. The Free Society of Artists, 1761-1783. A complete dictionary of contributors and their work from the foundation of the Societies to 1791' (London, 1907), p. 813.
- Shelfmark
- Maps K.Top.26.5.o.
