An album of six designs by William Pitts for the ornamental frieze in the North Drawing Room (renamed the White Drawing Room), Buckingham Palace, each signed by George IV (RCIN 935003-935010); bound in black leather with gold tooling The elaborate stucco decorations for the ornamental frieze in the White Drawing Room in Buckingham Palace, were largely completed in the lifetime of George IV. Thomas Stothard and EH Baily also contributed designs to the friezes in the state rooms. William Pitts began his career as a silversmith; he executed the famous silver-gilt 'Achilles Shield' to John Flaxman's design. He was instrumental in the design of architectural sculpture in the form of plaster reliefs within the Nash state rooms at Buckingham Palace. He designed and modelled most of the high relief plasterwork, including the tympana depicting the apotheosis of Edmund Spenser, William Shakespeare and John Milton in the South (now Blue) Drawing Room.