[Blenheim Palace]: photograph of an engraving, probably taken from a book, titled "Plan of Woodstock Park, with Blenheim House, Gardens &c:," engraved by H. Hulsbergh around 1717.
United Kingdom -- England -- Oxfordshire -- Woodstock
Date:
[between 1914 and 1949]
General:
Blenheim was the birthplace of Sir Winston Churchill. The palace was designed by Sir John Vanbrugh, while the landscape was designed by Henry Wise, with later modifications by Lancelot "Capability" Brown and other designers.
Mount reads: "[printed text on plate:] H Hulsbergh, S[c?] [text on mat:] Edward Van Altena, 71-79 W. 45th St., N.Y.C."
Historic plate number: "5."
Historic plate caption: "[printed text on plate:] Plan of Woodstock Park, with Blenheim House, Garden, etc. [...] p. 71, Vol 3 d;."
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Gardens -- England -- Oxfordshire -- Woodstock Search this
Genre/Form:
Lantern slides
Collection Citation:
Smithsonian Institution, Archives of American Gardens, The Garden Club of America collection.
Sponsor:
A project to describe images in this finding aid received Federal support from the Smithsonian Collections Care Initiative, administered by the National Collections Program.
