"Physicke Garden" Chelsea: Gateway in Swan Walk, Chelsea

Jessie Macgregor (1847-1919)

1914

Pencil

Source: Macgregor, facing p. 120

Macgregor describes this "curious old gateway ... with its formidable portcullis-sort of arrangement over the gate, and its caged bell" as "quaintly reminiscent" of Sir Hans Sloane's times (126).

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• Inside the garden

Bibliography

MacGregor, Jessie. Gardens of Celebrities and celebrated gardens in and around London. London: Hutchinson, 1918. Internet Archive. Contributed by the University of British Columbia Library. Web. 20 March 2022.

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