<p class="ccc"><font face="Arial, Helvetica"><a href="index.html"><img src="dream/title.gif" alt="" width="780" height="70" border="0" /></a></font></p> <p class="ccc"><font face="Arial, Helvetica"><img src="_themes/global/glohorsa.gif" alt="" width="780" height="10" /></font></p> <p class="ccc"><font face="Arial, Helvetica"><img src="dream/buttondh.gif" border="0" alt="Devonshire House" align="middle" /></font></p> <table width="760" border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td><table width="780" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <tr> <td><div align="center"><img src="dream/dh001_small.jpg" alt="" width="163" height="109" /></div></td> <td><div align="center"><img src="dream/dh002.jpg" alt="" width="193" height="109" /></div></td> <td><div align="center"><img src="dream/dh003_small.jpg" alt="" width="148" height="109" /></div></td> <td><div align="center"><img src="dream/dh005_small.jpg" alt="" width="170" height="109" /></div></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="4">&nbsp;</td> </tr> </table> <p align="center" class="lafayette"><font face="Arial, Helvetica"><img src="dream/dh_18051850.jpg" alt="Illustrated London News, 18 May 1850, p 345" width="600" height="567" /></font></p> <p align="center" class="lafayette"><font size="-1" face="Arial, Helvetica"><strong>Devonshire House The Grand Saloon in 1850<br /> &quot;with approximately 800 members of the aristocracy&quot;<br /> </strong></font><strong><font size="-1" face="Arial, Helvetica">Two years after the redecoration by Mr Crace of Wigmore Street</font></strong></p> <p align="center"><strong><font size="-1" face="Arial, Helvetica"><img src="dream/devonshirehouse1800.jpg" alt="Devonshire House 100s" width="600" height="437" /></font></strong></p> <p align="center"><strong><font size="-1" face="Arial, Helvetica" class="lafayette">&quot;Devonshire House about 1800&quot; with the wall and wooden gate which still existed in 1897 </font></strong></p> <p align="center"><strong><font size="-1" face="Arial, Helvetica"><img src="dream/devonshirehousepiccadillyc1900.jpg" alt="private collection; by Howard Penton" width="600" height="404" /></font></strong></p> <p align="center"><strong><font size="-1" face="Arial, Helvetica" class="lafayette">Devonshire House c 1900 with the new wrought iron gates.</font></strong></p> <p align="center"><strong><font size="-1" face="Arial, Helvetica"><img src="dh_files/slide0007_image024.jpg" alt="" width="400" height="270" /></font></strong></p> <p align="center"><strong><font size="-1" face="Arial, Helvetica" class="lafayette">Devonshire House c 1923 during demolition</font></strong></p> <p align="center"><strong><font size="-1" face="Arial, Helvetica"><img src="dream/new%20devonshire%20house.jpg" alt="" width="400" height="352" /></font></strong></p> <p align="center" class="lafayette"><strong><font size="-1" face="Arial, Helvetica">The building now on the site<br /> of Devonshire House</font></strong></p> <p align="center" class="lafayette"><font size="-2"><b><font color="#333333" size="-1" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">All images on this site are copyright V&amp;A. For further information on using or requesting copies of any images<br /> please contact the V&amp;A Picture Library: <a href="mailto:vaimages@vam.ac.uk">vaimages@vam.ac.uk</a> including the URL of the relevant page</font></b></font></p> <p align="center" class="lafayette"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">NB Not all the negatives made by Lafayette have survived. Some extra images can be seen<br /> on a display contact sheet from the London studio:</font></p> <p align="center"><img src="dream/missingalbumdhb.jpg" width="700" height="488" alt="Display contact sheet from the London studio showing some of the images whose negatives have not survived" /></p></td> </tr> </table> <p>&nbsp;</p> </body>