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BLENHEIM PALACE -- Thomas RICHARDSON (surveyor). A Reduced Plan of Blenheim Park, gardens and plantations adjoining in Oxfordshire. Belonging to His Grace The Duke of Marlborough. Made in in June 1771 by Thomas Richardson Surveyor in Little Queen Ann Street Cavendish Square London..
Manuscript estate plan, on vellum, pen-and-ink, heightened with green wash (570 x 870mm). Scale: 11.25 inches: 1 mile. With inset explanatory table and breakdown of acreages. (Some of the text faded, a few slightly browned spots, pin holes to margins.)
A fine survey of Blenheim Park, skilfully executed, with individual trees carefully indicated and shadowed. Richardson is listed in Tooley as having produced maps of Chelsea (1769), Richmond (1771), a 10 sheet map of the New Forest (1789) and a travellers map of Scotland in 1803. Eden, Dictionary of Land Surveyors, lists two Thomas Richardsons, one working in Glasgow and Edinburgh from 1790, and a second active in Chelsea from 1790-1800. This survey was clearly in France by 1793: a note at the foot of the image states, in a neat ink hand, that "Ce plan est un dèbris du richesse du chateau de la Bretèche, [ ? ] en 1793, par ordre du Comité de Salut-Publie."
Manuscript estate plan, on vellum, pen-and-ink, heightened with green wash (570 x 870mm). Scale: 11.25 inches: 1 mile. With inset explanatory table and breakdown of acreages. (Some of the text faded, a few slightly browned spots, pin holes to margins.)
A fine survey of Blenheim Park, skilfully executed, with individual trees carefully indicated and shadowed. Richardson is listed in Tooley as having produced maps of Chelsea (1769), Richmond (1771), a 10 sheet map of the New Forest (1789) and a travellers map of Scotland in 1803. Eden, Dictionary of Land Surveyors, lists two Thomas Richardsons, one working in Glasgow and Edinburgh from 1790, and a second active in Chelsea from 1790-1800. This survey was clearly in France by 1793: a note at the foot of the image states, in a neat ink hand, that "Ce plan est un dèbris du richesse du chateau de la Bretèche, [ ? ] en 1793, par ordre du Comité de Salut-Publie."