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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, Mothr 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.
The plan is labelled with some existing roads viz. (west side) Road from London to Hampstead, Mothr 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.
Level
Drawing
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