Residence of Sir Isaac Newton, corner of Orange & St Martin's Streets, Leicester Square

This watercolour depicts the house of Sir Isaac Newton at 35 St Martin's Street where he lived between 1710-1725. It was a three-storey house built in 1695 and is now the site of the Westminster Public Reference Library. After Newton the house was the residence of Charles and Fanny Burney.

Very little is known about James Lawson Stewart who exhibited watercolours in various London galleries between 1883-1889. He died in c. 1918 and towards the end of life was employed to copy prints of London. The accuracy of some of the locations should therefore be questioned.

The Museum was gifted a large selection of watercolours featuring locations which appeared in Dickens's works in 1934 and a set of cigarette cards was issued by R and J Hill Ltd in 1926 and 1934 entitled Historic Places from Dickens Classics which featured watercolours by Stewart.