Plate 20. TWO PEACHERIES AND A GREEN HOUSE. Executed for The Right Honble. LORD HEATHFIELD, at Nutwell Court, Devon
Information
Title
Plate 20. TWO PEACHERIES AND A GREEN HOUSE. Executed for The Right Honble. LORD HEATHFIELD, at Nutwell Court, Devon
Record type
Digitised Book Plate Collection
Original Reference
BP/5930-1001/20
Author or creator
Josiah Taylor (London, England); bookseller, publisher
Date
01 Sep 1806
Scope & content
Coloured engraved plate depicting designs for 'peacheries' and a 'green-house'. Includes two transverse sections, a longitudinal section, elevation, plan and two scale bars, one labelled 'Scale for Sections' and the other to the bottom of the plate underneath the plan. The configuration of the structures is described in the book, 'A green-house is placed in the centre, and a peach-house at each end, making one hundred and twenty-nine feet .... These buildings were also designed by W. T. Aiton, Esq'. The book plate bears the imprints 'Transverse Section of Peach House', 'Transverse Section of Green House and Fruit Room', 'Longitudinal Section of Green House', 'Elevation', 'Plan' and 'London, Published Septr. 1st 1806, by J. Taylor 59 High Holborn'. From the book 'Plans, elevations and sections, of hot-houses' by George Tod