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A pencil and watercolour drawing of a white house with gabled porch, approached by a wooden bridge over water. With horses and trees on the right. On a wash-line bordered mount inscribed: 'South East View of the Cheesecake House in Hyde Park 1797'. On three sheets of paper joined. With the auctioneer's numbers on the mount 1-27, identifying the drawing with lot 27 on the first day of Paul Sandby's estate sale, 2-4 May 1811, bought with RCIN 914695.

From 1774 Paul Sandby lived opposite Hyde Park at 4 St George's Row, Bayswater and made many drawings of the park, including a series of the encampments after the Gordon Riots in 1780. This drawing shows the Cheesecake House that stood in Hyde Park from at least the seventeenth century, and was a place where visitors to the park could purchase refreshments, including milk, cheesecake, tarts and syllabub. The Cheesecake House was used as a boathouse by 1801 and demolished in 1835.