Plan for laying out the Backs, 1779
Scope and Contents
Lancelot 'Capability' Brown had been employed by St John’s College in 1772 to work on their fellows’ garden. In April 1776, the University Senate agreed he should be paid £50 for a plan of improved landscaping as a unified park (‘in unam quasi corpus unamque specie concinnam et venustam’, UA Grace Book Lambda, p.37) for land on either side of the river Cam from Peterhouse to Magdalene College. Presented to the Senate in 1779, it was not adopted.
Scale: 100 feet to 1 inch.
Dates
- Creation: 1779
Creator
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Extent
1 item(s)
Language of Materials
English
Originator(s)
Brown, Lancelot
Finding aid date
1998-10-10 10:51:49+00:00
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