Source Description:

Title: Cornwall Terrace, Regent's Park. London
Artist: Shepherd, Thomas.
Engraver / Plate Maker: Deeble, W. 
Size: 5.75" x 3.5". 
Print Date: 1827

Cornwall Terrace is situated in the South West corner of the Regent's Park between York Terrace West and Clarence Terrace. It was designed by the young Decimus Burton who was  supervised by John Nash, and built by James Burton in 1820-21. It was the first Terrace in the Park and consisted of nineteen homes in a single 185 yard long Corinthian style building.

The view on the platter shows Cornwall Terrace, with No.1. on the right hand side with its garden and attractive bow window supported by four large caryatids.  To the left one can just see the end of York Terrace West. There is a story of how this house came to have its garden and the bow window. The terrace was planned to extend further to the right of the view on the platter and to join up with Clarence Terrace, but Mrs Siddons, a famous actress complained to King George IV that the view of the Park from her house in York Place (now the northern end of Baker Street ) would be lost. So the end of the terrace was shortened, the window added, and the space between made into a garden. Unfortunately, Mrs Siddons house was not in line with the space between the two terraces, so it would not have afforded her a view of the Park. A pity as it is a good story, but that is all it is, a story. No.1. has recently been extensively restored with a number of rooms built beneath the building, and was sold for the equivalent of  one hundred and twenty million dollars in 2013. To the left of the terrace one can just see part of York Terrace West in the distance.

Description:

An earthenware platter printed in dark blue with a named view titled Cornwall Terrace, Regent's Park. London.  The source print for this pattern is shown below.