(Updated, February 2018) This view looks roughly north from near the surviving 1717 Brass Foundry towards the towered gateway into the former Laboratory Square. Through the gateway arch and to the right, immediately beyond the closest building, can be seen parts of a pair of double-storey buildings with central pediments, facing each other across the Square. These are the only buildings of Laboratory Square that also still survive (now as housing). Just right of the gateway can be seen the turret of Tower Place, an earlier building beyond and just west of the far end of the Square. Different sorts of shot - mainly bar and ball - are shown, with a group of men working on them, between what are probably houses for the various Arsenal officials. The piece in front of the dog appears to be a carcase shot (two hemispheres separated by a cage for packing with inflammable materials). The Royal Laboratory at Woolwich was constructed in 1696 for the purpose of manufacturing munitions and became centre of a larger site, formally renamed the Royal Arsenal in 1805. This drawing is one of 11 of which the numbers are non-sequential owing to the different boxes in which they are stored (by mount size): PAG9664, PAH4071-72, PAI0744-46, PAI7701-03, PAJ2303 and PAJ2312. Four (including this one) were reproduced as a double-page spread in the 'Illustrated London News' of 1 January 1916, pp.14-15, as having recently appeared at auction by Messrs Hodgsons' and been bought by the ILN for that purpose. This makes it likely that they were later given to the NMM by Sir Bruce Ingram, managing proprietor and editor of the ILN and an early supporter of the Museum. They have been attributed to Gamaliel Massiot, an obscure artist of probably Huguenot French ancestry who was drawing master at the Royal Military Academy at Woolwich from 1744 to 1768, after which he continued in a secondary position under Paul Sandby to shortly before his death early in 1782 (see further notes to PAI0746).