View from the Terrace at Oatlands

Published in London 1773 for R. Goadby, J. Towers in Fore Street near Cripplegate.

Size is about 11.5 x 20 cm (4 1/2 x 8 inches)

Oatlands is the seat of Henry, Duke of Newcastle, and Earl of Lincoln. The park is about 4 miles round. The house situated about the middle of the terrace, the majestic grandeur of which, and the beautiful landscape which it commands, words cannot describe. The Serpentine River which you look down upon from the terrace, though artificial, appears as beautiful as it could do were it natural, and a stranger who did not know the place would conclude it to be the Thames, in which opinion he would be confirmed by the view of the Walton Bridge over that river.

This original antique print was produced from copper plate engraving process. Cropped on one side but it is still in very good conditon for the age of this print.