Credit: © The Royal Society
Image number: RS.10111
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Pleasure garden at Grove Hill, Camberwell, in Surrey
Date
1793 [?]
Object type
Library reference
Tracts/X99/3
Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (print): 210mm
width (print): 270mm
width (print): 270mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Landscape view of the pleasure garden, waterway and fountain near the house belonging to John Coakley Lettsom. The scene has a small pleasure boat on the water.
Plate 4 [not numbered] in the monograph Grove-Hill: an horticultural sketch [by John Coakley Lettsom] (London, 1794). The accompanying printed text notes that “This garden from whence the annexed fourth view is taken, is an oblong square of about an acre, situated behind the dwelling house...”
The plate is not inscribed.
John Coakley Lettsom (1744-1815) was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1773.
Plate 4 [not numbered] in the monograph Grove-Hill: an horticultural sketch [by John Coakley Lettsom] (London, 1794). The accompanying printed text notes that “This garden from whence the annexed fourth view is taken, is an oblong square of about an acre, situated behind the dwelling house...”
The plate is not inscribed.
John Coakley Lettsom (1744-1815) was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1773.
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