This room served as a waiting room for those attending public levees. It was hung with portraits of the Prince Regent's family. Carlton House was the London residence of the Prince Regent, the future King George IV, from 1783 until its demolition in 1826-7. This illustration was published in W H Pyne's 'The History of the Royal Residences', which appeared in three volumes in 1819, depicting the royal palaces as they appeared in the reign of King George III (1760-1820)