Richard & Charles Rosenberg after James Pollard. The Grand Entrance to Hyde Park. 24 x 18 inches A majestic panorama of the entrance into Hyde Park taken from the south. There was much talk in the late C18th about how to improve the approach into London from the west at Hyde Park Corner. The big hitters of the day, Robert Adam, James Wyatt and Sir John Soane all put forward proposals but it wasn't until the 1820s when Buckingham Palace was built that matters progressed. The Hyde Park Screen, as it was called, was designed by the architect Decimus Burton to be a grand entrance into the park with a monumental arch behind. It would be a stately and fitting way to process from the palace gates into perk itself and remains a ceremonial route to this day. Unframed |