View from Buckingham House overlooking St. James's Park and Green Park

Buckingham Palace, formerly known as Buckingham House, was designed by Captain William Winde (c.1645-1722) for John Sheffield, 1st Duke of Buckingham and Normanby (1648-1721) in 1703. The house was acquired by King George III in 1761 as a private residence and then known as "The Queen's House". The house was enlarged and aggrandized over the course of the next seventy-five years and finally became the official Royal residence of the British Monarch on the accession of Queen Victoria in 1837.
The present drawing offers a fascinating panorama of London as seen from within the walls of Buckingham House in the early years of the nineteenth century.