A large pair of romantic views in Hyde Park. THE DRINKING WELL IN HYDE PARK and THE DIPPING WELL IN HYDE PARK.

SPILSBURY, MARIA 1776-1820 and WHEATLEY, FRANCIS 1747-1801 (engraved by James Godby)

Verlag: J. Murphy. 1802, 1802

Beschreibung

2 engravings - overall sizes 20x25 inches. The first by Wheatley the second by Spilsbury. Large romantic views of Hyde Park. In the early eighteenth-century, the Serpentine in Hyde Park was no large and ornamental lake, but rather a series of ponds described as consisting of dirty and stagnant water which were supplied by the Westbourne, a river which originated in Hampstead and which, before entering Hyde Park, was joined by the 'Cool Bourne' (Kilburn) and a tributary called the Tyburn Brook or Stream. The Westbourne carried on under Knightsbridge to meet the Thames near Chelsea Hospital but, in Hyde Park, it 'wandered about in a series of ponds' until in 1730 Queen Caroline, the wife of George II, ordered that it be banked, forming the artificial lake we know today as the Serpentine. Bottom margins laid down. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 6436

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Titel: A large pair of romantic views in Hyde Park....

Verlag: J. Murphy. 1802

Erscheinungsdatum: 1802