[New Place]

Title

[New Place]

Record type

Ephemera

Original Reference

E/PC/BPG/N/1027

Date

c.1910

Scope & content

Sepia-tinted photographic postcard showing a view of the old-fashioned garden at New Place. Pencil: [scribbled notes] [no address supplied]. New Place had been Shakespeare's last house; it was acquired by the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust in 1876. In the 1920s Ernest Law created a garden based on Didymus Mountaine to provide a period setting

Extent

1 postcard

Physical description

9 (h) x 14 (w) cm

Is part of

British Private Gardens Postcard Collection

Subjects

gardens

buildings (structures)

formal gardens

topiary

Credit Line

RHS Lindley Collections