Interior views dating from the late nineteenth century are not very common. These skillful drawings with their successfully managed mirrored reflections from one end of the room to the other and their sensitive detail resemble in handling and character the views of four rooms in Canon Valpy's house, 3 The Close, Winchester, by B.O.Corfe, painted in about 1900 (see Susan Lasdun, Victorians at Home, 1981, pp.128-30). Although superficially the rooms seem thoroughly Victorian in their decoration and furnishing, there is evidence of a modern taste at work, particularly in the device for displaying plates above the connecting arch between the rooms. The very informal flower arrangements are still unusual but the eclectic mixture of ornaments and curiosities from different periods and cultures is in the height of aesthetic fashion. Also fashionable are the prints in wide white mounts hung round the room