At Prior park and other papers . e left bank of the Thames at Ham-mersmith, about halfway between Chis-wick Church and the north end of Hammer-smith Bridge, stand some dozen old-fashionedhouses, turning their backs to the river, andknown as Hammersmith Terrace. According toFaulkner, they were built about the year 1770,but they were undoubtedly inhabited in the lastquarter of the eighteenth century; and insteadof being crowded around, as at present, bystructures of all sorts, must, at that date, havelooked uninterruptedly over open fields or market-gardens towards the high road from Brentford t
At Prior park and other papers . e left bank of the Thames at Ham-mersmith, about halfway between Chis-wick Church and the north end of Hammer-smith Bridge, stand some dozen old-fashionedhouses, turning their backs to the river, andknown as Hammersmith Terrace. According toFaulkner, they were built about the year 1770,but they were undoubtedly inhabited in the lastquarter of the eighteenth century; and insteadof being crowded around, as at present, bystructures of all sorts, must, at that date, havelooked uninterruptedly over open fields or market-gardens towards the high road from Brentford toKensington. To the indifferent spectator theysay nothing; but with a little goodwill, it is notdifficult to detect in them a certain air of fadeddistinction which seems to shrink vaguely fromvulgar encroachment. Moreover, the neighbour-hood is not without its associations. Hard by, inthe Upper Mall, once dwelt Catherine of Bra-ganza, until she quitted this country for Portugal,to find her final resting place at Belem; farther94. LOUTHERBOURG(FROM THE PORTRAIT BY GAINSBOROUGH IN THE DULWICH GALLERY) Loutherbourg, 95 away, in Chiswick Churchyard, Hogarth liesburied. On one side are thenew Buildings(Mawsons Row) in which Pope translated the Iliad; on the other is the Doves Tavern,where (or in the adjoining cottage once formingpart of it) Thomson, according to a time-honouredtradition, worked upon his Winter. The oldTerrace, too, has its personal and particularmemories. At No. 5 was the residence of thatwhilom idol of Sadlers Wells and Covent Garden,Mrs. Mountain; at No. 15 (the westernmosthouse) lived the biographer of Garrick, ArthurMurphy, the Mur. of Dr. Johnsons compressedcode of endearment; and at Nos. 7 and 8, formore than a quarter of a century, the artist andenthusiast, Philip de Loutherbourg. With thislast we are here immediately concerned. Nothingvery precise is known about him; and it is pro-bable that he must always be more of a name thana person. Yet, in the abs
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