John White's Regent's Park plan. Marylebone Park Estate. St John's Wood 1815 map
'Plan of the improvements proposed on the Marylebone Park Estate, with the contiguous parts of the parishes of St Marylebone and St Pancras, by John White 1809'. Artist/engraver/cartographer: John White, the 3rd Duke of Portland's surveyor. Reduced and drawn from the original copy by Peter Potter, Kentish Town. Neele sc, Strand. 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 White's competing plan, which called for a "Grand Crescent" north of what is now the Marylebone Road on the axis of Harley Street, with Marylebone parish church at its centre. White proposed that a number of villas would be built around the outer circle, rather than Nash's terraces that were eventually constructed.
Size: 3937px × 2598px
Location: London
Photo credit: © Antiqua Print Gallery / Alamy / Afripics
License: Royalty Free
Model Released: No
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