Brown wash, graphite, and pen and brown ink on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 6 5/8 × 11 5/8 inches (16.8 × 29.5 cm)
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1975.2.617
Gallery Label:
This is one of a pair of drawings for pavilions within a park (B1975.2.38). The perspective shows a building with a pyramidal roof between hipped end bays and behind an advanced porticoed center. The pavilion sits on the top of a hill, overlooking a landscape with clumps of trees and livestock. The drawing is probably one of William Kent's fanciful sketches, not intended for use as a design proposal. The groupings of animals and the loose handling in the trees are recognizably Kent’s work. Gallery label for installation of YCBA collection, 2014
