Lot Essay
Tickford Park was an Elizabethan house demolished in 1976-7. It stood on the site of an old deer park and came in to the possession of the van Hagen family towards the end of the eighteenth century when Hannah Jaques who had inherited it on the death of her husband, married Hendrick van Hagen. For further examples of Diana Sperling's watercolours of Tickford Park see G. Mingay, Mrs Hurst Dancing and other Scenes from Regency Life 1812-1823, the watercolours of Diana Sperling, London, 1981