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- Title:
- Prospect of Hampton Court from the Garden Side
- Date:
- 1736
- Materials & Techniques:
- Engraving on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 16 3/4 × 28 13/16 inches (42.5 × 73.2 cm), Plate: 15 3/16 × 28 3/8 inches (38.6 × 72.1 cm), Image: 13 5/8 × 27 13/16 inches (34.6 × 70.6 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Collector's mark, verso: Paul Mellon
Lettered, lower left: "J. Rigaud fecit 1736 | PROSPECT OF HAMPTON-COURT from the Garden side | This is a very noble Royal Palace situate upon the River Thames about twelve miles above London, it was built by Cardinal Wolsey, | and being forfeited With his other Estates to Henry VIII, has bilong'd to under the Crown eversince, considerable additions have | been Made to it under several Reigns, but the new part of the structure is owing mostly to King William 3e | a Paris chez lauteur rue St.Jacques vis avis le Pless[is]"; lettered, lower right: "VEUE DU CHATEAU D'HAMPTON-COURT du cote du Jardin | Ceci est un superbe Palais Royal place sur le bord de la Tamise a cinq petites lieues environ au dessus de la Ville de Londre. Il | fut bati par le Cardinal Wolsey, aiant ete confisque et autres biens adjacents au profit de la Couronne par Henry VIII Il ya ete du | depuis ajoute plusieurs choses sous differents Regnes, et ce qu'il y a de nouvelement construit est atribue au Roy Guillaume 3e."
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1977.14.12959
- Classification:
- Prints
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Access:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
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- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:37496
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