Plate 23d. A GREEN HOUSE & ROSERY. Executed for The Right Honble. THE EARL OF UPPER OSSORY, at Ampthill Park, Beds
Information
Title
Plate 23d. A GREEN HOUSE & ROSERY. Executed for The Right Honble. THE EARL OF UPPER OSSORY, at Ampthill Park, Beds
Record type
Digitised Book Plate Collection
Original Reference
BP/5930-1001/23
Author or creator
Josiah Taylor (London, England); bookseller, publisher
Date
01 Sep 1806
Scope & content
Coloured engraved plate depicting designs for a 'green house' and 'rosery'. Includes two transverse sections, an elevation and plan with a scale bar underneath. The 'hot-house' is described in the book as having 'a level pit filled with tan, for the purpose of forcing roses or other flowers , and is divided from the green-house by a partitian of glass, and doors of communication from one to the other'. John FitzPatrick was Lord Lieutenant of Bedforshire from 1771 to 1818. In 1794, he was given the title of 'Baron Upper Ossory', of Ampthill in the County of Bedford, as the title of earl of Upper Ossory inherited from his father was a title in the Irish peerage and therefore did not entitle him to a seat in the British House of Lords. The book plate bears the imprints 'Transverse Section of Rosery', 'Transverse 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