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ESTATE PLAN - John Adams. Map of Rolvendon parish including the estates belonging to...situate in the parishes of Tenterden, Biddenden, Benenden, Wittersham and Staplehurst in the County of Kent. Tenterden: 1829.
Manuscript estate plan, ink and wash on vellum, on a single vellum skin 1070 x 1360mm. Title set in a decorative cartouche, scale bar, inset arms of the Hutton family, and two small pen and wash vignettes of Hole Park and Rolvendon Church, ink strapwork border. Mounted on wooden rollers.
An elaborate and attractive survey of the Hutton estates by John Adams, active in Kent in the early 19th century. Steer Dictionary of Surveyors, notes a John Adams active in Hawkhurst 1828-45, and a second Adams active in Dover 1832-43. These may well be one and the same. He was undoubtably an accomplished draftsman as this survey attests. Curiously he has left off the name of the Hutton family from the title of the map, this being the principal family for whom this survey was undoubtably intended; perhaps the contract for the survey was reneged upon or dissolved by on of the prties concerned. Included with the lot is the manuscript terrier to accompany the survey drawn up by Adams. It describes the landuse, ownership, tenants and acreages of the farms and fields laid out in the survey, bound in contemporary russia, gilt, the upper cover detached. (2)
Manuscript estate plan, ink and wash on vellum, on a single vellum skin 1070 x 1360mm. Title set in a decorative cartouche, scale bar, inset arms of the Hutton family, and two small pen and wash vignettes of Hole Park and Rolvendon Church, ink strapwork border. Mounted on wooden rollers.
An elaborate and attractive survey of the Hutton estates by John Adams, active in Kent in the early 19th century. Steer Dictionary of Surveyors, notes a John Adams active in Hawkhurst 1828-45, and a second Adams active in Dover 1832-43. These may well be one and the same. He was undoubtably an accomplished draftsman as this survey attests. Curiously he has left off the name of the Hutton family from the title of the map, this being the principal family for whom this survey was undoubtably intended; perhaps the contract for the survey was reneged upon or dissolved by on of the prties concerned. Included with the lot is the manuscript terrier to accompany the survey drawn up by Adams. It describes the landuse, ownership, tenants and acreages of the farms and fields laid out in the survey, bound in contemporary russia, gilt, the upper cover detached. (2)