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Description: | A round version of this tin was produced at the same time. The name Blenheim is derived from a decisive battle that took place on the 13th August 1704 between the English and the French near a small village called Blindheim or Blenheim. John Churchill, the first Duke of Marlborough, won a great allied victory over the forces of Louis XIV. In reward for his services in defending Holland and Austria from invasion by the French, a grateful Queen Anne granted to Marlborough the Royal Manor of Woodstock and signified that she would build him, at her own expense, a house to be called Blenheim. Sir John Vanburgh designed the house. Building began in 1705 and was completed in 1722. The view chosen to illustrate this tin shows the house from the side, with the water terraces in the Versailles style in the foreground, rather than from the more usual grand approach to the front of the house. | Format: | image/jpeg | License: | http://www.sopse.org.uk/ixbin/hixclient.exe?a=query&p=gateway&f=generic_sitetext%2ehtm&_IXFIRST_=1&_IXMAXHITS_=1&cms_con_core_subtype%3acms_con_text_what=copyright&%3acms_sys_group=%22sopse%22 | Publisher: | Huntley & Palmers | Rights holder: | Reading Borough Council (Reading Museum Service) | Subjects: | building environment tree gateway royalty bridge palace landscape | Temporal: | start=1972-01-01; end=1973-12-31; | Source: | Sense of place SE | Creator: | Huntley, Boorne & Stevens | Identifier: | http://www.sopse.org.uk/ixbin/hixclient.... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | image/jpeg | Go to resource |
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