3508 x 2598 px | 29,7 x 22 cm | 11,7 x 8,7 inches | 300dpi
Date de la prise de vue:
1815
Lieu:
London
Informations supplémentaires:
Cette image peut avoir des imperfections car il s’agit d’une image historique ou de reportage.
'Plan of an estate belonging to the Crown called Marybone Park Farm, upon a design for letting it out on building leases. By John Nash'. Artist/engraver/cartographer: John Nash. Reduced and drawn from the original copy by Peter Potter, Kentish Town. Provenance: "Some account of the proposed improvements of the western part of London, By the formation of the Regent's Park, the New Street, the new sewer &c", by J. White, the second edition, with additions. London. Printed for Cadell & Davies, Strand; Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown, Paternoster Row; Edmund Lloyd, Harley Street; and w. Reynolds, 137, Oxford Street. 1815. Type: A scarce early 19th century copperplate map showing proposed improvements to Regency London. Original hand colouring. What is now Regent's Park was once owned by the Duke of Portland under a lease which was due to expire in 1811. Anticipating the park's redevelopment upon its reversion to the Crown, a prize of £1000 was offered in 1793 for the best scheme for laying out the area. By 1809, the only designs submitted were those of John White, surveyor to the 3rd Duke of Portland. Leverton and Chawner of HM Land Revenues, and Nash & Morgan of the Woods and Forests department were therefore asked to submit competing schemes. It was Nash's plan that was subsequent enacted from 1818, with modifications. This scarce map shows an early incarnation of Nash's successful plan, although it differs in a number of respects from the scheme that was eventually constructed. A number of Nash's famous terraces were eventually built, although this plan called for a number of other terraces and crescents that were never built. The boating lake is familiar, as is the inner circle, although Nash's plan called for two concentric circuses with terraced housing facing inwards and outwards, and the access roads differ. What is now Park Crescent was originally conceived as a circus, mirrored on the north side of the Marylebone Road. Nash anticipated that the area now occ
