Editing Richmond Park (section)

==In culture==

===The Hearsum Collection===
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'''The Hearsum Collection''' is a registered charity{{refn|group="nb"|Its charity registration number is 1153010.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/charity-details/?regid=1153010&subid=0 | title=Charity overview: The Hearsum Collection | publisher=[[Charity Commission for England and Wales]]| access-date=29 June 2023}}</ref>}} that collects and preserves the heritage of Richmond Park. It has a collection, which was started by Daniel Hearsum (1958–2021) in 1997,<ref name="Park History">{{cite web | url= https://www.pembroke-lodge.co.uk/history/| title=History: Richmond Park History | publisher=[[Pembroke Lodge]] | access-date=19 February 2022}}</ref> of heritage material covering the last four centuries, with over 5000 items including antique prints, paintings,<ref name="FRP blog"/> maps, postcards, photographs, documents, books and press cuttings. Volunteers from the Friends of Richmond Park have been cataloguing them.<ref name="FRP blog">{{cite web | url=http://blog.frp.org.uk/tag/hearsum/ | title=History Volunteers welcome new paintings of Richmond Park | publisher=[[#Friends of Richmond Park|Friends of Richmond Park]] | work=FRP blog | date=19 May 2013 | access-date=29 June 2023 | archive-date=3 November 2014 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141103175920/http://blog.frp.org.uk/tag/hearsum/}}</ref> The Collection, which as of 2025 continues to be stored in unsatisfactory accommodation in Pembroke Lodge,<ref name="Hearsum video"/> is overseen by volunteers and part-time staff. The trustees announced in 2014 plans for a new purpose-built [[heritage centre]] to provide full public access to the Collection.<ref name="Hearsum video"/><ref name="Hearsum">{{cite web | url=https://hearsumcollection.org.uk/ | title=Welcome to The Hearsum Collection | publisher=[[#The Hearsum Collection|The Hearsum Collection]] | access-date=21 June 2023}}</ref><ref name="Wood - heritage">{{cite journal | title=Consultation on new heritage centre | author=Robert Wood | journal=Friends of Richmond Park Newsletter |date=Autumn 2014 | page = 13}}</ref>

In April 2017 the Collection, in collaboration with The Royal Parks and Ireland's [[Office of Public Works]], mounted an exhibition at Dublin's [[Phoenix Park]] entitled ''Parks, Our Shared Heritage: The Phoenix Park, Dublin & The Royal Parks, London'', demonstrating the historical links between Richmond Park (and other Royal Parks in London) and Phoenix Park.<ref name="Fallon">{{Cite news |url=https://www.irishtimes.com/life-and-style/homes-and-property/gardens/park-yourself-in-dublin-s-finest-garden-1.3025382 |title=Park yourself in Dublin's finest garden  |last=Fionnuala Fallon |date=1 April 2017 |newspaper=[[The Irish Times]] |access-date=15 July 2023}}</ref> The exhibition was also displayed at London's [[Mall Galleries]]  in July and August 2017.<ref name="Mall">{{Cite web |url=https://www.ianvisits.co.uk/calendar/parks-our-shared-heritage-413797/|title=Parks – Our Shared Heritage |date=July 2017 |author= Ian Mansfield|publisher=IanVisits  |access-date=1 March 2025}}</ref>

===Literature===

====Novels====

[[George MacDonald]]'s novel ''The Marquis of Lossie'' (published in London in 1877 by [[Hurst and Blackett]])<ref name="Rees">{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ORW9F05auG0C&q=Hurst+and+Blackett+1877+The+Marquis+of+Lossie&pg=PA153 | title=George MacDonald | publisher=[[Gale (publisher)#Imprints|Twayne Publishers Inc]] | location = New York|author=Richard H Rees | year=1972 | page=153}}</ref> has a chapter entitled "Richmond Park".<ref name="Lossie">{{cite web | url=http://www.online-literature.com/george-macdonald/marquis-of-lossie/22/ | title=Chapter 22: Richmond Park, The Marquis of Lossie | author=[[George MacDonald]] | website= The Literature Network|access-date=14 February 2024}}</ref>

In [[Georgette Heyer]]'s [[Regency romance]] ''[[Sylvester, or the Wicked Uncle]]'' (1957) there is an expedition to Richmond Park.<ref name="Sylvester">{{cite book | title=Sylvester, or the Wicked Uncle | publisher=[[William Heinemann]] | author=Georgette Heyer | year=1957 | location=London|pages=193 and 197| title-link=Sylvester, or the Wicked Uncle | author-link=Georgette Heyer }}</ref>

Isabella Plantation in Richmond Park is the scene of a picnic and a child's disappearance in  [[Chris Cleave]]'s 2008 novel ''[[The Other Hand]]''.<ref>[[Chris Cleave]] (2008). ''[[The Other Hand]]'' (American title ''Little Bee''). London: [[Hodder & Stoughton]] paperback, pp. 300–333.</ref> Richmond Park features in [[Jacqueline Wilson]]'s novel ''[[Lily Alone]]'' (2010) and in the poetry anthology she edited, ''Green Glass Beads'' (2011).<ref name="Wilson">{{cite web | url= https://www.yourlocalguardian.co.uk/youngreporter/9387275.poems-in-richmond-park/ | title=Poems in Richmond Park | work=Richmond Guardian | date=26 November 2011 | access-date=18 October 2023}}</ref>

Novelist [[Shena Mackay]] was commissioned by The Royal Parks to write a short story about Richmond Park named ''The Running of the Deer'' which was published in 2009.<ref name="Flood">{{Cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2009/feb/17/royal-parks-stories-will-self |title=Bespoke short stories commissioned for London's royal parks |last=Alison Flood |date=17 February 2009 |work=[[The Guardian]] |access-date=29 January 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.waterstones.com/book/the-running-of-the-deer/shena-mackay/9780955876165 |title=The Running of the Deer: Richmond Park – Park Stories Bk. 7 (Paperback)|website= Waterstones|access-date = 8 February 2025}}</ref>

[[Anthony Horowitz]]'s 2014 novel ''[[Moriarty (novel)|Moriarty]]'', about [[Arthur Conan Doyle]]'s character in his [[Sherlock Holmes]] stories, includes a scene set in Richmond Park.<ref name="Moriarty">{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-uFRAwAAQBAJ&q=moriarty+horowitz+richmond+park&pg=PT219 | title=Moriarty | publisher=[[Orion Publishing Group|Orion]] | author=Anthony Horowitz | year=2014 | isbn=978-1-4091-0947-1| author-link=Anthony Horowitz }}</ref>

====Poetry====
[[Joseph Coelho]]'s 2017 poetry anthology ''Overheard in a Tower Block'' includes a poem for children, "Richmond Park".<ref>{{Cite web |date=October 2022 |title=Richmond Park |url=https://www.frp.org.uk/richmond-park-a-poem-by-joseph-coelho/ |access-date=6 February 2025 |website=Friends of Richmond Park}}</ref>

====Non-fiction====
''A Hind in Richmond Park'' by [[William Henry Hudson]], published in 1922 and republished in 2006, is an extended [[natural history]] essay. It includes an account of his visits to Richmond Park and a particular occasion when a young girl was struck by a red deer when she tried to feed it an acorn.<ref name="Hudson">{{cite book | url=https://archive.org/details/hindinrichmondpa00hud | title=A Hind in Richmond Park | author=William Henry Hudson| publisher=[[J. M. Dent|J M Dent and Sons Ltd]] | date=1922 | access-date=23 August 2018| author-link=William Henry Hudson }}</ref>

===Art===

====17th century====

[[Lamport Hall]] in [[Northamptonshire]] holds ''The Carlile Family with Sir Justinian Isham in Richmond Park'',<ref name="Art UK Carlile">{{cite web | url=https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/the-carlile-family-with-sir-justinian-isham-in-richmond-park-49201 | title=The Carlile Family with Sir Justinian Isham in Richmond Park by Joan Carlile |website=[[Art UK]] | access-date=27 December 2023}}</ref> an [[oil painting]]  by [[Joan Carlile]] (1600–1679) who lived at Petersham Lodge.<ref name="Toynbee and Isham"/>

====18th and 19th centuries====

[[File:Thomas Rowlandson - Richmond Park - Google Art Project.jpg|thumb|''Richmond Park'' by [[Thomas Rowlandson]]]]
[[File:Andrew Geddes (1783 - 1844) - View in Richmond Park, A Small Bridge to the Right - ABDAG007603 - Aberdeen City Council (Archives, Gallery and Museums Collection).jpg|thumb| ''View in Richmond Park, A Small Bridge to the Right'' by [[Andrew Geddes (artist)|Andrew Geddes]]]]
A portrait by T Stewart (a pupil of [[Sir Joshua Reynolds]]) in 1758 of ''John Lewis, Brewer of Richmond, Surrey'', whose legal action forced Princess Amelia to reinstate pedestrian access to the park, is in the Richmond upon Thames Borough Art Collection. It is on display in Richmond Reference Library.<ref name="Art UK Lewis">{{cite web | url=https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/john-lewis-17131792-brewer-of-richmond-surrey-87382 | title=''John Lewis, Brewer of Richmond, Surrey'' by T Stewart|website=[[Art UK]] | access-date=30 September 2023}}</ref>

[[Joseph William Allen|Joseph Allen]]'s ''Sir Robert Walpole (1676–1745), 1st Earl of Orford, KG, as Ranger of Richmond Park (after Jonathan Richardson the Elder)'' is in the collection of the [[National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty|National Trust]], and is held at [[Erddig]], [[Wrexham]].<ref name= "Art UK Allen">{{cite web | url= https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/sir-robert-walpole-16761745-1st-earl-of-orford-kg-as-ranger-of-richmond-park-100111| title=''Sir Robert Walpole (1676–1745), 1st Earl of Orford, KG, as Ranger of Richmond Park'' (after Jonathan Richardson the Elder) by Joseph Allen |website=[[Art UK]] | access-date=5 March 2024}}</ref> The painting is based on a portrait with a similar title, by [[Jonathan Richardson|Jonathan Richardson the Elder]] and [[John Wootton]], which is held at [[Norwich Castle| Norwich Castle Museum and Art Gallery]].<ref name= "BBC Richardson">{{cite web | url=https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/sir-robert-walpole-1st-earl-of-orford-as-a-ranger-of-richmond-park-228923 | title=''Sir Robert Walpole, 1st Earl of Orford, as a Ranger of Richmond Park'' by Jonathan Richardson the elder and John Wootton |website=[[Art UK]] | access-date=15 July 2023}}</ref>

Artist and [[caricaturist]] [[Thomas Rowlandson]] (1756–1827)'s drawing ''Richmond Park'' and [[James Smetham]]'s ''Lovers in Richmond Park'', painted in 1864, are held at the [[Yale Center for British Art]] in [[New Haven, Connecticut]].<ref name="Rowlandson">{{cite web | url=http://collections.britishart.yale.edu/vufind/Record/1669944 | title=Thomas Rowlandson, 1756–1827, Richmond Park, undated |website=[[Yale Center for British Art]] | access-date=26 August 2024}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=James Smetham, 1821–1889, Lovers in Richmond Park, 1864|url=https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:1339|access-date=5 March 2024|website=[[Yale Center for British Art]]}}</ref>

''The Earl of Dysart's Family in Richmond Park'' by [[William Frederick Witherington]] (1785–1865) is in The Hearsum Collection at Pembroke Lodge.<ref name="New paintings">{{cite web | url=http://blog.frp.org.uk/tag/painting/ | title=History Volunteers welcome new paintings of Richmond Park |website=[[#Friends of Richmond Park|Friends of Richmond Park]] |type=Blog | date=19 April 2013 | access-date=15 July 2013 | author=Mary Pollard | archive-date=13 October 2013 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131013071555/http://blog.frp.org.uk/tag/painting/ }}</ref>

''Landscape: View in Richmond Park'' was painted in 1850 by the English Romantic painter [[John Martin (painter)|John Martin]]. It is held at the [[Fitzwilliam Museum]] in [[Cambridge]].<ref name="Martin Art UK">{{cite web | url= http://artuk.org/discover/artworks/landscape-view-in-richmond-park-5011 | title=''Landscape: View in Richmond Park'' |website=[[Art UK]] | access-date=21 July 2016}}</ref>

[[William Bennett (painter)|William Bennett]]'s [[watercolour]] ''In Richmond Park'', painted in 1852, is held by [[Tate Britain]]. It can be viewed, by appointment, at its Prints and Drawings Rooms.<ref name="Tate Bennett">{{cite web | url= http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/bennett-in-richmond-park-n01722 | title=William Bennett: ''In Richmond Park'' 1852 |website=[[Tate]] | access-date=4 January 2022}}</ref>

The oil painting ''In Richmond Park'' (1856) by the Victorian painter [[Henry Moore (painter)|Henry Moore]] is in the collection of the [[York Museums Trust]].<ref name="Moore 1856">{{cite web | url=http://www.yorkmuseumstrust.org.uk/collections/search/item/?id=20000362&search_query=c2VhcmNoX3RleHQ9SGVucnkrTW9vcmU%3D | title=In Richmond Park |website=[[York Museums Trust]] | access-date=28 February 2015}}</ref><ref name="Art UK Moore">{{cite web | url=http://artuk.org/discover/artworks/in-richmond-park-8276 | title=''In Richmond Park'' by Henry Moore |website=[[Art UK]] | access-date=21 July 2016}}</ref>

''Landscape with Deer, Richmond Park'' (1875) by Alfred Dawson is in the [[Reading Museum]]'s collection.<ref name="Dawson">{{cite web | url= https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/landscape-with-deer-richmond-park-41588| title= ''Landscape with Deer, Richmond Park'' |website=[[Art UK]] | access-date=27 December 2023}}</ref>

[[John Buxton Knight]]'s ''White Lodge, Richmond Park'', painted in 1898, is in the collection of [[Leeds]] Museums and Galleries.<ref name="BBC Buxton Knight">{{cite web | url=http://artuk.org/discover/artworks/white-lodge-richmond-park-38458 | title=''White Lodge, Richmond Park'' by John William Buxton Knight |website=[[Art UK]] | access-date=21 July 2016}}</ref>

[[Andrew Geddes (artist)|Andrew Geddes]]' ''View of Richmond Park, a Fountain on the Left'' (pre 1844), and ''View in Richmond Park, A Small Bridge to the Right'' (c.1826), are in the collection of [[Aberdeen Art Gallery|Aberdeen Archives, Gallery and Museums]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=View of Richmond Park, a Fountain on the Left|url=https://emuseum.aberdeencity.gov.uk/objects/6746/view-of-richmond-park-a-fountain-on-the-left|access-date=2022-02-19|website=emuseum.aberdeencity.gov.uk|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=View in Richmond Park, A Small Bridge to the Right|url=https://emuseum.aberdeencity.gov.uk/objects/6765/view-in-richmond-park-a-small-bridge-to-the-right|access-date=2022-02-19|website=emuseum.aberdeencity.gov.uk|language=en}}</ref>

====20th and 21st centuries====

The oil painting ''Richmond Park'' (1913) by Arthur George Bell is in the collection of the [[London Transport Museum]].<ref name="Art UK Bell">{{cite web | url= http://artuk.org/discover/artworks/richmond-park-215742 | title=''Richmond Park'' by Arthur George Bell|website=[[Art UK]] | access-date=16 July 2016}}</ref>

[[Spencer Frederick Gore|Spencer Gore]]'s painting ''Richmond Park'', thought to have been painted in the autumn of 1913 or shortly before the artist's death in March 1914, was exhibited at the [[William Rothenstein#Career|Paterson and Carfax Gallery]]<ref name="Carfax">{{cite web | url= http://www.artbiogs.co.uk/2/galleries/carfax-gallery | title=Carfax Gallery | work=Artist Biographies: British and Irish Artists of the 20th Century | access-date=17 October 2012}}</ref> in 1920. In 1939 it was exhibited in [[Warsaw]], [[Helsinki]] and [[Stockholm]] by the [[British Council]] as ''Group of Trees''.<ref name="Tate 1">{{cite web | url=http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/gore-richmond-park-n05100 | title=''Spencer Gore: Richmond Park'' c.1914 | publisher=[[Tate Gallery]] | access-date=16 October 2012}}</ref> It is now in the collection of the [[Tate Gallery]] under its original title but is not currently on display.<ref name="Tate 1"/>  The painting is one of a series of landscapes painted in Richmond Park during the last months of Gore's life.<ref name="Art UK Gore 1">{{cite web | url=http://artuk.org/discover/artworks/richmond-park-198969/search/keyword:richmond-park-by-spencer-gore | title=''Richmond Park'' by Spencer Gore |website=[[Art UK]] | access-date=21 July 2016}}</ref> According to Tate curator Helena Bonett, Gore's early death from [[pneumonia]], two months before what would have been his 36th birthday, was brought on by his painting outdoors in Richmond Park in the cold and wet winter months.<ref name="Tate 2">{{cite book | url=https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/camden-town-group/spencer-gore-r1105355| title=The Camden Town Group in Context: Spencer Gore 1878–1914  |publisher=[[Tate Gallery]] | access-date=7 March 2024| author=Helena Bonett | date= September 2009| isbn=978-1-84976-385-1 }}</ref> It is not certain where in the park the picture was made but a row of trees close to the pond near Cambrian Gate has a very close resemblance to those in the painting.<ref name="Tate Upstone">{{cite web | url=http://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/camden-town-group/spencer-gore-richmond-park-r1163001 | title=Spencer Gore: ''Richmond Park'' c.1914 | publisher=[[Tate Gallery]] | work=The Camden Town Group in Context | date=May 2009 | access-date=7 February 2015 | author=Robert Upstone | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150207074140/http://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/camden-town-group/spencer-gore-richmond-park-r1163001 | archive-date=7 February 2015 | df=dmy-all }}</ref> Another Gore painting, with the same title (''Richmond Park''), painted in 1914, is at the [[Ashmolean Museum]]. His painting ''Wood in Richmond Park'' is in the [[Birmingham Art Gallery]]'s collection.<ref name="Wood in Richmond Park">{{cite web | url= http://artuk.org/discover/artworks/wood-in-richmond-park-33967 | title=''Wood in Richmond Park'' by Spencer Gore |website=[[Art UK]] | access-date=21 July 2016}}</ref>

The oil painting ''Autumn, Richmond Park'' by [[Alfred James Munnings]] is at the [[Sir Alfred Munnings Art Museum]] in [[Colchester]].<ref name="Art UK Munnings">{{cite web | url=http://artuk.org/discover/artworks/autumn-richmond-park-3716| title=''Autumn, Richmond Park'' by Alfred James Munnings |website=[[Art UK]] | access-date=21 July 2016}}</ref>

Chinese artist [[Chiang Yee]] wrote and illustrated several books while living in Britain.  ''Deer in Richmond Park'' is Plate V in his book ''[[The Silent Traveller in London]]'', published in 1938.<ref name="Chiang Yee V&A">{{cite journal |url=http://www.vam.ac.uk/content/journals/research-journal/issue-no.-4-summer-2012/the-silent-traveller-chiang-yee-in-britain-1933-55/ |title=The silent traveller: Chiang Yee in Britain 1933–55 |author=Anna Wu |journal=V&A Online Journal |date=Summer 2012 |issue=4 |issn=2043-667X}}</ref>

''Trees, Richmond Park, Surrey'', painted in 1938 by [[Sir Francis Cook, 4th Baronet|Francis Ferdinand Maurice Cook]], is in the [[Manchester Art Gallery]]'s collection.<ref name="Art UK Cook">{{cite web | url=http://artuk.org/discover/artworks/trees-richmond-park-surrey-204730| title=''Trees, Richmond Park, Surrey'' by Francis Ferdinand Maurice Cook |website=[[Art UK]] | access-date=21 July 2016}}</ref>

''Richmond Park No 2'' by the English Impressionist painter [[Laura Knight]] is at the [[Royal Academy of Arts]].<ref name="Art UK Knight">{{cite web | url=https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/richmond-park-no-2-148932 | title=''Richmond Park No.2'' (unsigned) by Laura Knight |website=[[Art UK]] | access-date=21 July 2016}}</ref>

''In Richmond Park'' (1962) by James Andrew Wykeham Simons is at the [[University College London#Special collections|UCL Art Museum]] at [[University College London]].<ref name="Art UK Simons">{{cite web | url=https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/in-richmond-park-42421 | title=''In Richmond Park'' by James Andrew Wykeham Simons |website=[[Art UK]] | access-date=27 December 2023}}</ref>

[[Kenneth Armitage]] (1916–2002) made a series of sculptures and drawings of oak trees in Richmond Park between 1975 and 1986.<ref name="Tate Armitage">{{cite web | url=http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/kenneth-armitage-664/text-artist-biography | title=Kenneth Armitage: artist biography | publisher=[[Tate Gallery]] | access-date=17 October 2012}}</ref> His collage and etching ''Richmond Park: Tall Figure with Jerky Arms'' (1981) is in the British Government Art Collection and is on display at the [[Embassy of the United Kingdom, Prague|British Embassy in Prague]].<ref name="Jerky">{{cite web | url=https://artcollection.culture.gov.uk/artwork/16448-c/| title=Kenneth Armitage&nbsp;– Richmond Park: Tall Figure with Jerky Arms | publisher=[[Government Art Collection]] | access-date=6 March 2024}}</ref> The Government Art Collection also holds Armitage's ''Richmond Park: Two Trees with White Trunks'' (1975),<ref name="White Trunks">{{cite web | url=https://artcollection.culture.gov.uk/artwork/16446-c/| title=Kenneth Armitage&nbsp;– Richmond Park: Two Trees with White Trunks | publisher=[[Government Art Collection]] | access-date=6 March 2024}}</ref>  and ''Richmond Park: Five Trees, Grey Sky'' (1979).<ref name="Five Trees">{{cite web | url= https://artcollection.culture.gov.uk/artwork/16447-c/| title=Kenneth Armitage&nbsp;– Richmond Park: Five Trees, Grey Sky | publisher=[[Government Art Collection]] | access-date=6 March 2024}}</ref> His bronze sculpture ''Richmond Oak'' (1985–86) is displayed at the British Embassy in Brasilia, Brazil.<ref name="Richmond Oak">{{cite web | url=https://artcollection.culture.gov.uk/artwork/16479/ | title=Kenneth Armitage: Richmond Oak | publisher= [[Government Art Collection]] | access-date=6 March 2024}}</ref>

[[Queen Mary's Hospital, Roehampton]] holds ''Richmond Park Morning, London'' (2004) by Bob Rankin<ref name="Art UK Rankin">{{cite web | url=http://artuk.org/discover/artworks/richmond-park-morning-london-95022/ | title=''Richmond Park Morning, London'' |website=[[Art UK]] | access-date=21 July 2016}}</ref> and ''Richmond Park, London'' (2005–06), a panel of five oil paintings by Yvonne Fletcher.<ref name="Art UK Fletcher">{{cite web | url=https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/richmond-park-london-94968 | title=''Richmond Park, London'' (panel 2 of 5) by Yvonne Fletcher |website=[[Art UK]] | access-date=27 December 2023}}</ref>

====Historic posters====
[[File:The Lion.jpg|thumb|upright|''[[LMR 57 Lion|Lion]]'' (seen here in May 1980) masqueraded as ''Thunderbolt'' for the film ''[[The Titfield Thunderbolt]]''.]]
<!--HIDDEN PENDING INVESTIGATION OF DUBIOUS CLAIM "OWN WORK" [[File:Salim Ali Salam with King Faisal I of Iraq in Richmond Park in London in 1925, along with Salim's son Saeb and daughters Anbara and Rasha..jpg|thumb|right|[[Salim Ali Salam]] and [[King Faisal I of Iraq]] in the park in 1925, with Salim's son Saeb and daughters Anbara and Rasha]]-->
The [[Underground Electric Railways Company]] published, in 1911, a poster, ''Richmond Park'', designed by Charles Sharland. This is at the London Transport Museum,<ref name="Sharland">{{cite web | url=https://www.ltmuseum.co.uk/collections/collections-online/posters/item/1983-4-114 | title=Richmond Park, by Charles Sharland, 1911 | publisher=[[London Transport Museum]] | work=Poster | access-date=27 December 2023}}</ref> which also has: a [[District line]] poster from 1908, ''Richmond Park for pleasure and fresh air'', by an unknown artist;<ref name="Unknown">{{cite web | url=https://www.ltmuseum.co.uk/collections/collections-online/posters/item/1983-4-14| title=Richmond Park for pleasure and fresh air, by unknown artist, 1908 | publisher=[[London Transport Museum]] | work=Poster | access-date=5 March 2024}}</ref> ''Richmond Park'', by an unknown artist (1910);<ref name="Unknown 2">{{cite web | url=http://www.ltmcollection.org/posters/poster/poster.html?design=abc&_IXSESSION_=3IoiZ5nGFfX&IXsearch=richmond&IXsummary=results/results&_IXSR_=91m_vc1O5jd&_IXMAXHITS_=1&_IXFIRST_=4 | title=Richmond Park, by unknown artist, 1910 | publisher=[[London Transport Museum]] | work=Poster | access-date=7 February 2015 | archive-date=7 February 2015 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150207130317/http://www.ltmcollection.org/posters/poster/poster.html?design=abc&_IXSESSION_=3IoiZ5nGFfX&IXsearch=richmond&IXsummary=results/results&_IXSR_=91m_vc1O5jd&_IXMAXHITS_=1&_IXFIRST_=4 }}</ref> ''Richmond by Underground'' by Alfred France (1910);<ref name="France">{{cite web | url= https://www.ltmuseum.co.uk/collections/collections-online/posters/item/1983-4-122| title=Richmond by Underground, by Alfred France, 1910 | publisher=[[London Transport Museum]] | work=Poster | access-date=26 August 2024}}</ref> ''Richmond Park'' by Arthur G Bell (1913);<ref name="Bell poster">{{cite web | url=http://www.ltmcollection.org/posters/poster/poster.html?design=abc&_IXSESSION_=3IoiZ5nGFfX&IXsearch=richmond&IXsummary=results/results&_IXSR_=91m_vc1O5jd&_IXMAXHITS_=1&_IXFIRST_=11 | title=Richmond Park, by Arthur G Bell, 1913 | publisher=[[London Transport Museum]] | work=Poster | access-date=7 February 2015 | archive-date=7 February 2015 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150207140615/http://www.ltmcollection.org/posters/poster/poster.html?design=abc&_IXSESSION_=3IoiZ5nGFfX&IXsearch=richmond&IXsummary=results/results&_IXSR_=91m_vc1O5jd&_IXMAXHITS_=1&_IXFIRST_=11 }}</ref>  ''Richmond Park; humours no. 10'' by German American puppeteer and illustrator [[Tony Sarg]] (1913);<ref name="Sarg">{{cite web | url=http://www.ltmcollection.org/posters/poster/poster.html?design=abc&_IXSESSION_=3IoiZ5nGFfX&IXsearch=richmond&IXsummary=results/results&_IXSR_=91m_vc1O5jd&_IXMAXHITS_=1&_IXFIRST_=12 | title=Richmond Park; humours no. 10, by Tony Sarg, 1913 | publisher=[[London Transport Museum]] | work=Poster | access-date=7 February 2015 | archive-date=7 February 2015 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150207130413/http://www.ltmcollection.org/posters/poster/poster.html?design=abc&_IXSESSION_=3IoiZ5nGFfX&IXsearch=richmond&IXsummary=results/results&_IXSR_=91m_vc1O5jd&_IXMAXHITS_=1&_IXFIRST_=12 }}</ref> ''Richmond Park by tram'' by Charles Sharland (1913);<ref name="Sharland 1913">{{cite web | url=http://www.ltmcollection.org/posters/poster/poster.html?design=abc&_IXSESSION_=3IoiZ5nGFfX&IXsearch=richmond&IXsummary=results/results&_IXSR_=91m_vc1O5jd&_IXMAXHITS_=1&_IXFIRST_=13 | title=Richmond Park by tram, by Charles Sharland, 1913 | publisher=[[London Transport Museum]] | work=Poster | access-date=7 February 2015 | archive-date=7 February 2015 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150207140312/http://www.ltmcollection.org/posters/poster/poster.html?design=abc&_IXSESSION_=3IoiZ5nGFfX&IXsearch=richmond&IXsummary=results/results&_IXSR_=91m_vc1O5jd&_IXMAXHITS_=1&_IXFIRST_=13 }}</ref> ''Richmond Park'' by Harold L Oakley (1914);<ref name="Oakley">{{cite web | url=http://www.ltmcollection.org/posters/poster/poster.html?design=abc&_IXSESSION_=3IoiZ5nGFfX&IXsearch=richmond&IXsummary=results/results&_IXSR_=91m_vc1O5jd&_IXMAXHITS_=1&_IXFIRST_=14 | title=Richmond Park, by Harold L Oakley, 1914 | publisher=[[London Transport Museum]] | work=Poster | access-date=7 February 2015 | archive-date=7 February 2015 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150207140618/http://www.ltmcollection.org/posters/poster/poster.html?design=abc&_IXSESSION_=3IoiZ5nGFfX&IXsearch=richmond&IXsummary=results/results&_IXSR_=91m_vc1O5jd&_IXMAXHITS_=1&_IXFIRST_=14 }}</ref> ''Natural history of London; no. 3, herons at Richmond Park'' by Edwin Noble (1916);<ref name="Noble">{{cite web | url=http://www.ltmcollection.org/posters/poster/poster.html?design=abc&_IXSESSION_=3IoiZ5nGFfX&IXsearch=richmond&IXsummary=results/results&_IXSR_=91m_vc1O5jd&_IXMAXHITS_=1&_IXFIRST_=17 | title=Natural history of London; no. 3, herons at Richmond Park, by Edwin Noble (1916) | publisher=[[London Transport Museum]] | work=Poster | access-date=7 February 2015 | archive-date=7 February 2015 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150207130451/http://www.ltmcollection.org/posters/poster/poster.html?design=abc&_IXSESSION_=3IoiZ5nGFfX&IXsearch=richmond&IXsummary=results/results&_IXSR_=91m_vc1O5jd&_IXMAXHITS_=1&_IXFIRST_=17 }}</ref> ''Richmond Park'' by Emilio Camilio Leopoldo Tafani (1920);<ref name="Tafani">{{cite web | url=http://www.ltmcollection.org/posters/poster/poster.html?design=abc&_IXSESSION_=3IoiZ5nGFfX&IXsearch=richmond&IXsummary=results/results&_IXSR_=91m_vc1O5jd&_IXMAXHITS_=1&_IXFIRST_=18 | title=Richmond Park, by Emilio Camilio Leopoldo Tafani, 1920 | publisher=[[London Transport Museum]] | work=Poster | access-date=7 February 2015 | archive-date=7 February 2015 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150207130501/http://www.ltmcollection.org/posters/poster/poster.html?design=abc&_IXSESSION_=3IoiZ5nGFfX&IXsearch=richmond&IXsummary=results/results&_IXSR_=91m_vc1O5jd&_IXMAXHITS_=1&_IXFIRST_=18 }}</ref> ''Rambles in Richmond Park'' by [[Freda Lingstrom]] (1924);<ref name="Lingstrom">{{cite web | url=https://www.ltmuseum.co.uk/collections/collections-online/posters/item/1983-4-1583 | title=Poster; Rambles in Richmond Park, by Freda Lingstrom, 1924 | publisher=[[London Transport Museum]] | work=Posters | access-date=1 June 2022}}</ref> ''Richmond Park'' by Charles Paine (1925);<ref name="Paine">{{cite web | url=http://www.ltmcollection.org/posters/poster/poster.html?_IXSR_=wD5NUjbe18V&_IXMAXHITS_=1&IXinv=1983/4/1790&IXsummary=artist/artist&IXartist=Charles%20Paine&_IXFIRST_=23 | title=Richmond Park, by Charles Paine, 1925 | publisher=[[London Transport Museum]] | work=Poster | access-date=7 February 2015 | archive-date=7 February 2015 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150207130455/http://www.ltmcollection.org/posters/poster/poster.html?_IXSR_=wD5NUjbe18V&_IXMAXHITS_=1&IXinv=1983%2F4%2F1790&IXsummary=artist%2Fartist&IXartist=Charles%20Paine&_IXFIRST_=23 }}</ref> and ''Richmond Park'', a poster commissioned by [[London Transport Executive|London Transport]] in 1938 and illustrated by the artist Dame Laura Knight.<ref name="Knight 1938">{{cite web | url=https://www.ltmuseum.co.uk/collections/collections-online/posters/item/1983-4-5045 | title=Poster; Richmond Park, by Laura Knight, 1938 | publisher=[[London Transport Museum]] | work=Posters | access-date=1 June 2022}}</ref>

===Film===
Richmond Park has been a location for several films and TV series:

* A [[locomotive]] runs through the park and crashes into a tree in the [[Ealing Studios]] comedy film ''[[The Titfield Thunderbolt]]'' (1953).<ref name="Screen"/>
* In the 1968 film ''[[Performance (film)|Performance]]'', [[James Fox]] crosses Richmond Park in a [[List of Rolls-Royce motor cars|Rolls-Royce car]].<ref name="Screen"/>
* The park was the backdrop for the classic historical film ''[[Anne of the Thousand Days]]'' (1969),<ref name="Star">{{cite web | url=https://www.royalparks.org.uk/parks/richmond-park/about-richmond-park/richmond-park-in-film | title=Richmond Park in film| publisher=[[The Royal Parks]] | work=Richmond Park | access-date=8 December 2022}}</ref> with [[Richard Burton]] and [[Geneviève Bujold]], which looks back to what is now Richmond in the 16th century. The film tells the story of King [[Henry VIII]]'s courtship of [[Anne Boleyn]] and their brief marriage.
* An Indian [[dust storm]] was filmed in the park for the film ''[[Heat and Dust]]'' (1983).<ref name="Screen">{{cite book | publisher=[[Museum of Richmond]] | author1=Sue Barber | author2=Phillippa Heath|editor= Valerie Boyes | title=Richmond on Screen: Feature Films Shot in the Borough | year=2009 | page=27}}</ref>
* The Royal Ballet School in Richmond Park featured in the film ''[[Billy Elliot]]'' (2000).<ref name="Screen"/><ref name="Lydall">{{cite news | url=https://www.standard.co.uk/news/billy-elliot-v-the-badgers-7086734.html | title=Billy Elliot v the badgers | work=[[Evening Standard]] | date=3 February 2005 | access-date=18 October 2013 | author=Ross Lydall | location=London}}</ref>
* In 2010, director [[Guy Ritchie]] filmed parts of ''[[Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows]]'' (2011) in the park with [[Robert Downey Jr.]] and [[Jude Law]].<ref name="Holmes">{{cite news | url= http://www.yourlocalguardian.co.uk/news/local/richmondnews/8459315.Detective_sequel_filming_in_Richmond_Park/ | title=Richmond Park transformed into gypsy camp as Sherlock Holmes sequel starring Robert Downey Jr. as Sherlock and Jude Law as Dr Watson is filmed | work= [[Richmond and Twickenham Times]]|date=18 October 2010 | access-date=25 September 2013}}</ref>
* Some of the scenes from ''[[Into the Woods (film)|Into the Woods]]'' (2014), the [[Disney]] fantasy film featuring [[Meryl Streep]],<ref name="Vincent">{{cite news | url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/film-news/10339166/Meryl-Streep-in-Into-The-Woods-first-look.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220112/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/film-news/10339166/Meryl-Streep-in-Into-The-Woods-first-look.html |archive-date=12 January 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live | title=Meryl Streep in Into The Woods: first look | work=[[The Daily Telegraph]] | date=27 September 2013 | access-date=13 February 2014 | author=Alice Vincent}}{{cbignore}}</ref> were filmed in the park.<ref name="Meryl Streep">{{cite web | url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03qflhm | title=Meryl Streep; Oscar Isaac; Sundance festival; National Trust film locations | publisher=[[BBC Radio 4]] | work=[[The Film Programme]] | access-date=13 February 2014}}</ref><ref name="Magical">{{cite news | title=Streep praises 'magical' park | work=[[Richmond and Twickenham Times]] | date=7 February 2014 }}</ref>
* Richmond Park was the setting for some scenes in the 2018 family comedy film ''[[Patrick (2018 film)|Patrick]]''.<ref name="Macnab">{{Cite news |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/reviews/patrick-review-makes-pudsey-seem-like-the-citizen-canine-of-dog-movies-a8419286.html |title= Patrick review: Makes Pudsey seem like the Citizen Canine of dog movies |author=Geoffrey Macnab |date=27 June 2018 |work=[[The Independent]] |access-date=3 April 2019}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.richmondandtwickenhamtimes.co.uk/news/16321497.patrick-out-in-cinemas-on-friday/ |title=Patrick out in cinemas on Friday |date=28 June 2018 |work=[[Richmond and Twickenham Times]] |access-date=3 April 2019}}</ref>

As well as a location for films, Richmond Park is regularly featured in television programmes, corporate videos and fashion shoots. It has made an appearance on ''[[Blue Peter]]'', ''[[Inside Out (2002 TV programme)|Inside Out]]'' (the BBC regional current affairs programme) and ''[[Springwatch]]'' (the BBC natural history series).<ref name="Star"/> In 2014 it was featured in a video commissioned by [[#The Hearsum Collection|The Hearsum Collection]].<ref name="Hearsum video">{{cite web | url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqzgc7b_Ky8 | title=The Heritage Pavilion Video | publisher=[[YouTube]] | date=11 November 2004 | access-date=3 February 2015}}</ref> Most recently it was the subject of nature documentary ''Richmond Park&nbsp;– National Nature Reserve'', presented by Sir David Attenborough and produced by the Friends of Richmond Park, which has won the best "Longform" film in the 2018 national Charity Film Awards.<ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.standard.co.uk/stayingin/tvfilm/david-attenborough-urges-richmond-park-visitors-to-tread-lightly-and-protect-wildlife-in-new-film-a3523996.html | title=Sir David Attenborough urges Richmond Park visitors to 'tread lightly' and protect wildlife in new film | author= Robert Dex|work=[[Evening Standard]] | date=26 April 2017 | access-date=3 June 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite news | url=http://www.richmondandtwickenhamtimes.co.uk/news/16251013.Sir_David_Attenborough_s_Richmond_Park_film_wins_national_charity_film_award/| title=Sir David Attenborough's Richmond Park film wins national charity film award | author= Calum Rutter|work=[[Richmond & Twickenham Times]] | date=25 May 2018 | access-date=3 June 2018}}</ref>