A view in the Arboretum with the Florentine Boar in the foreground and a group of children standing in the background

Date:: 1900 - 1910

Location:: The Arboretum, Rose Hill, City Of Derby, City Of Derby

Reference:: BB79/03334

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Description

Derby Arboretum was donated to the people of Derby by the industrialist Joseph Strutt. The Florentine Boar was commissioned by Strutt when the park formed part of his private garden. It was an earthenware copy of a bronze statue which Strutt had visited in the New Market, central Florence. Copy negative produced from OP22150.

Content

This is part of the Series: RBO01/11 Early Photographic Print Collection: Derbyshire; within the Collection: RBO01 Early Photographic Print Collection

Rights

Source: Historic England Archive

Keywords

Victorian Public Park, Victorian Arboretum