Camden Estate, Camden, London, c.1790

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George Dance office drawings: the drawings of George Dance the Elder and George Dance the Younger
- Town Planning and London Bridge (8)
  - Camden Estate, Camden, London, c.1790 (1). Design for 1st Earll Camden, virtually unexecuted

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Reference number

SM D5/3/34 verso, and versos also of SM D1/12/6, SM D2/8/19, SM D5/5/28

Purpose

Camden Estate, Camden, London, c.1790

Aspect

[1] Engraved plan of scheme for the development of the Camden Estate

Scale

3/8 in to 100 ft

Inscribed

labelled and N point

Signed and dated

1790

Medium and dimensions

Engraved on laid paper (480 x 610)

Watermark

J Whatman and fleur-de-lis in crowned cartouche and W below

Notes

Dance used the back of the print for a drawing for the Royal College of Surgeons ([SM D5/3/34]); the same print was used for another drawing for the same scheme ([SM D5/5/28]), and others for Coleorton ([SM D1/12/6]) and Langdown House ([SM D2/8/19]), four in all. The purpose of the engraved print was probably as an advertisement to speculative builders and others.

The plan is labelled with some existing roads viz. (west side) Road from London to Hampstead, Moth^r Redcaps (Mother Red Cap, a public house), Present Road to Kentish Town, (east side) Present Road from Pancras and From Pancras to Kentish Town.

Today, the boundary of the former Camden estate runs from just below Camden underground station up Kentish Town Road to south of Bartholomew Road, turning right to go north of Camden Road, then east following the line of York Way before curving west on the south of Agar Grove and looping to the east end of Crowndale Road and returning to Camden High Street (G. Bebbington, London street names, 1972, estate maps section).

REPRODUCED. J Summerson, Heavenly mansions, 1949, fig.8; G. Teyssot, Città e utopia nell'illuminismo inglese: George Dance il giovane, Rome, 1974, fig.127; J. Summerson 'The Beginning of an early Victorian suburb', London Topographical Record, XXVII, 1995, fig.9.

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Drawing

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