Graphite, pen and black ink, watercolor and gray wash on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 12 5/8 x 18 3/4 inches (32.1 x 47.6 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in pen and brown ink, lower center, bar scale numbered "6", "12", and "18 ft"; in graphite, upper right: "2"; inscribed on verso in graphite, upper right: "W603/3"
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Richmond upon Thames | Surrey | England | United Kingdom | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew | London
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
The Line of Beauty : British Drawings and Watercolors of the Eighteenth Century (Yale Center for British Art, 2001-05-19 - 2001-08-05)The Early Georgian Landscape Garden (Yale Center for British Art, 1983-04-20 - 1983-06-26)British Architectural Drawings (Yale Center for British Art) (Yale Center for British Art, 1982-04-21 - 1982-05-30)
Publications:
John Harris, Sir William Chambers : Architect to George III, Yale University Press, New Haven, 1996, pp. 55-67, NJ18 .C37 S57 1996 (YCBA)John Harris, Sir William Chambers : Knight of the polar star, Pennsylvania State University Press, University Park, PA, 1970, p. 38, NJ18 .C37 H37 1970 + Oversize (YCBA)Kimerly Rorschach, The early Georgian landscape garden, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 1983, pp. 72, 105, no. 76, 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. 139, no. 117, NC228 W53 2001 (YCBA)Eric R. Wolterstorff, British architectural drawings, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, Conn., 1982, p. 9, no. 9, V 0251 (YCBA)