Item details: Marlborough House in St Jamess Park
£ 250.00
Bowles, John:
Marlborough House in St Jamess Park
Imprint: London,, 1731
Copper engraving, 33.5 x 45 cms, engraved by Sutton Nicholls, black and white as issued, title on swallow tailed banderole, blank verso. From “London Described”. Bowles gave up his Stocks Market address, given in the imprint, circa 1731.
Marlborough House was completed in 1711 for the famouly strong-willed and highly influential Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough, confidante of Queen Anne and wife of John Churchill the first Duke of Marlborough, victor of Blenheim. Acquired by the Crown in the nineteenth century it was the residence of Edward VII while Prince of Wales, and since 1953 it has been used by the Commonwealth Secretariat., Adams 29/14