Source Description:

Title: York Gate Regent's Park & Mary-Le-Bone Church 
Artist: Shepherd, Thomas
Engraver / Plate Maker: Unknown
Size: 5.75" x 3.5"
Print Date: 1828

York Gate was designed by the architect John Nash, and built in 1822 as the Grand Entrance from The New Road to The Regent's Park. The view on the plate and on the engraving  shows St. Marylebone parish church on the far side of the New Road.(Now Marylebone Road) It was built on the Duke of Portland's Estate between 1813 and 1817. On the right of the Church is No. 8-12 York Gate, a terrace of five, four storied stuccoed town houses, No. 7 is the building on the extreme right, this is the end of one of the two large terraced buildings in York Terrace, which is situated between York Gate and the Park, it is built with a single story extension which gives the appearance of a gatehouse. Behind the trees on the left of the plate is a mirror image of these buildings. No. 1-5 were damaged during WW2. and rebuilt later, they are now part of the Royal Academy of Music, No. 6 now houses, Rotary International and The Rotary Club of London.

Description:

A triple indented earthenware plate with embossed scrolls near the plate's rim.  Printed in dark blue with a pattern named York Gate Regent's Park, a title taken from the source print shown below.  The blue printed mark shown above with the name The London Institution was incorrectly applied to this pattern.  A printed number "15" was also applied to the back of the plate in addition to an impressed number "5".