A View of the Rotunda in the Garden at Stowe, Buckinghamshire
Date:
1753
Materials & Techniques:
Watercolor and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 9 1/8 x 12 3/4 inches (23.2 x 32.4 cm)
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1975.4.1058
Classification:
Drawings & Watercolors
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Subject Terms:
views | trees | water | gardeners | pool | rotundas (interior spaces) | architectural subject | gardens | columns | rakes | statues | statuary
Associated Places:
Stowe | England | Europe | United Kingdom | Buckinghamshire | Stowe Landscape Gardens
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
Art in Focus: John Goto's High Summer (Yale Center for British Art, 2018-04-06 - 2018-08-19)The Changing Garden: Four Hundred Years of European and American Gardens and Parks (Cantor Art Center, Stanford University, 2003-06-11 - 2003-09-07)The Changing Garden: Four Hundred Years of European and American Gardens and Parks (Dixon Gallery & Gardens, 2003-10-19 - 2004-01-11)The Changing Garden: Four Hundred Years of European and American Gardens and Parks (The University of Michigan Museum of Art, 2004-03-13 - 2004-05-23)The Line of Beauty : British Drawings and Watercolors of the Eighteenth Century (Yale Center for British Art, 2001-05-19 - 2001-08-05)The World of Alexander Pope (Yale Center for British Art, 1988-04-08 - 1988-05-29)The Early Georgian Landscape Garden (Yale Center for British Art, 1983-04-20 - 1983-06-26)Country Houses in Great Britain - Yale Center for British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 1979-10-10 - 1980-01-29)
Publications:
Art in Focus : John Goto's 'High Summer', Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 2018, p. 17, Vertical File V2770 (YCBA)Christie's sale catalogue : Fine English drawings and watercolours : 17 November 1970, Christie's, November 17, 1970, p. 20, lot 64, Auction Catalogues (YCBA)Country houses in Great Britain., Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 1979, pp. 14, 71, no. 58, N6764 Y34 1979 (YCBA)Betsy G. Fryberger, The changing garden : four centuries of European and American art, Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts at Stanford University, Berkeley, 2003, p. 170, no. 81a, N8217 .G36 F79 2003 + Oversize (YCBA)Prof. Maynard Mack, The World of Alexander Pope, Yale University Press, New Haven, p. 60, no 49, Z8704 M37Kimerly Rorschach, The early Georgian landscape garden, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 1983, pp. 32, 91, no. 28, SB467.78 .G7 R67 Oversize (YCBA)Scott Wilcox, Line of beauty : British drawings and watercolors of the eighteenth century, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 2001, p. 136, no. 114, NC228 W53 2001 (YCBA)