John Donowell ('' floreat'' 1753–1786) was an eighteenth-century British

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and engraver, considered to be the equivalent of

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and

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as one of the principal architect-draughtsmen in the third quarter of the eighteenth century. He exhibited in 1761 at the

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, then through the 1760s at the Society of Artists, and from 1778 to 1786 at the

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; prints, some hand-coloured, were published at this time. Donowell made a number of topographical drawings, mostly views of London, such as of the Grand Walk in the then-fashionable

Marylebone Gardens Marylebone Gardens or Marybone Gardens was a London pleasure garden sited in the grounds of the old manor house of Marylebone and frequented from the mid-17th century, when Marylebone was a village separated from London by fields and market gard ...

. File:Ironmongers Hall with a view of Fenchurch Street John Donowell.jpg, Ironmongers Hall with a view of

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, circa 1749 File:Chiswick House and Avenue John Donowell 1753.jpg, Engraving of

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and Avenue, 1753 File:A View of the Orchestra with the Band of Music, the Grand Walk etc. in Marybone Gardens John Donowell 1755.jpg, A view of the Orchestra with the Band of Music, the Grand Walk &c in Marybone Gardens, hand-coloured engraving from a drawing by Donowell, 1761 File:East View of West Wycombe House, Buckinghamshire John Donowell.jpg, East View of

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, Buckinghamshire, circa 1760 File:View of Burlington's House at Chiswick from the Road c1763 John Donowell.jpg, View of Burlington's House at Chiswick from the Road, circa 1763 File:View of Burlington's Garden at Chiswick from the Steps in the Back John Donowell c1763.jpg, View of Burlington's Garden at Chiswick from the Steps in the Back, circa 1763

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