Hyde Park London The Dell Antique Picture Print Old Victorian 1896 RL#08

Description: Hyde Park London The Dell 1896 Antique Print A black & white print, rescued from a disbound book from 1896 about London, with another picture on the reverse side. Suitable for framing, the average page size including text is approx 12" x 9.25" or 30.4cm x 23.5cm. Actual picture size is approx 10" x 7" or 25.4cm x 17.7cm This is an antique print not a modern copy and can show signs of age or previous use commensurate with the age of the print. Please view any scans as they form part of the description. All prints will be sent bagged and in a tube, large letter size box or board backed envelope for protection in transit. While every care is taken to ensure my scans or photos accurately represent the item offered for sale, due to differences in monitors and internet pages my pictures may not be an exact match in brightness or contrast to the actual item. Text description beneath the picture (subject to any spelling errors due to the OCR program used) HYDE PARK.—Hyde Park, St. James's and the Green Parks, and Kensington Gardens have a total area of 783 acres, and cost something like £41,000 per annum to keep up. The charming Spot depicted above is little more than a stone's throw from Hyde Park Corner. Before the dissolution of the Religious House, the site of this park belonged to the old Manor of Hyde, one of the possessions of Westminster Abbey. The ground was laid out as a park and inclosed under Henry VIII. In the reign of Elizabeth, stags and deer were hunted in it, while under Charles II. it was devoted to horse-racing. While we have the opportunity, let us consider, if only for a moment, this most famous of recreation grounds, which all the world, even at this day, persists in calling The Park," as if we had no other park in our Metropolis. No doubt this is because in the Stuart times, and even Iater, it was the only park really open to the people at large. All sorts of extraordinary things have taken place in Hyde Park - inter alia, "a fine foot-race three times round the Park between an Irishman and Crow, that was once my Lord Claypole's footman." (Pepys' Diary, August 10th, 1660.) In the year of the great plague a regiment of the Guards was quartered in the park, and towards the end of the last century Sir John Soane proposed to erect a Royal residence in it. From the time of Cromwell downwards the history of Hyde Park is little more than a record of five events of which, from time to time, it has been the scene—reviews of troops and Volunteers, encampments, duels, highway robberies, and executions.

Price: 5.99 GBP

Location: DEREHAM

End Time: 2024-12-07T18:13:19.000Z

Shipping Cost: 17.01 GBP