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Lancelot 'Capability' Brown had been employed by St John\u2019s College in 1772 to work on their fellows\u2019 garden. In April 1776, the University Senate agreed he should be paid £50 for a plan of improved landscaping as a unified park (\u2018in unam quasi corpus unamque specie concinnam et venustam\u2019, UA Grace Book Lambda, p.37) for land on either side of the river Cam from Peterhouse to Magdalene College. Presented to the Senate in 1779, it was not adopted.<\/p>
Jacqueline Cox, Keeper of the University Archives <\/p>" }, { "label": "Date of Creation", "value": "1779" }, { "label": "Title", "value": "Hand drawn and coloured plan for laying out The Backs at Cambridge" }, { "label": "Author(s) of the Record", "value": "Jacqueline Cox, Keeper of the University Archives" }, { "label": "Material", "value": "Paper. Repaired (rebacked on linen, given paper border, lined with material of fine weave, possibly silk, and rolled) in the 1950s; now stored flat, folded in three." }, { "label": "Classmark", "value": "UA P.I.3" }, { "label": "Subject(s)", "value": "Town planning; Parks; Landscape gardening" }, { "label": "Format", "value": "Plan" }, { "label": "Author(s)", "value": "Brown, Lancelot, 1716-1783" }, { "label": "Bibliography", "value": "
Lancelot 'Capability' Brown had been employed by St John\u2019s College in 1772 to work on their fellows\u2019 garden. In April 1776, the University Senate agreed he should be paid £50 for a plan of improved landscaping as a unified park (\u2018in unam quasi corpus unamque specie concinnam et venustam\u2019, UA Grace Book Lambda, p.37) for land on either side of the river Cam from Peterhouse to Magdalene College. Presented to the Senate in 1779, it was not adopted.<\/p>
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