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
    Subject
    Content object
    nature
       > landscape
    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.
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