Thomas Matthews Rooke RWS (1842-1942)
"River frontage of Duke Street buildings, including the Adam and Eve from Old Battersea Bridge"
According to label verso, originally inscribed "Back of Houses in Lombard Street, and Adam and Eve from Old Chelsea Bridge 1868. Early morning view. Abandoned because of a new era in work", pencil and watercolour, together with two figurative brown ink sketches attributable to Arthur Hughes (1830-1915) one with illegible pencil sketch to reverse, 24cm by 33cm and 11cm by 7cm respectively (3)

Provenance: "River frontage of Duke Street buildings, including the Adam and Eve from Old Battersea Bridge" - Moss Galleries, London
Michael Brian Fine English Watercolours, London, where exhibited "In Cheyne Walk and Thereabout" 1984, no.31

Lombard Street lay East of Danvers Street and extended to the Old Church. The narrower street from Danvers Street running west to the bridge was Duke Street. The river frontage was demolished to make way for the embankment in 1873. The north side of Duke Street disappeared in 1889, two years after the bridge itself, but the north of Lombard Street survived for a time, being renamed Lombard Terrace. In 1897, a number of houses were built from designs of C. R. Ashbee.

Rooke started his career designing for William Morris and Co., and was a studio assistant of Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones (1868-1898).