William Kent, ca.1686–1748, British, Design for a Pavilion in a Deer Park, ca. 1735
- Title:
- Design for a Pavilion in a Deer Park
- Former Title(s):
- Design for a Deer Park
- Date:
- ca. 1735
- Materials & Techniques:
- 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
- Classification:
- Drawing & Watercolors-Architectural
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- architectural subject | garden structures | grazing | hills | landscape | landscape architecture | meadows | pavilions (garden structures)
- Access:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
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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
Country Houses in Great Britain - Yale Center for British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 1979-10-10 - 1980-01-29) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]
Country houses in Great Britain., Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 1979, p. 70, no. 53, N6764 Y34 1979 (YCBA) [YCBA]
John Wilmerding, Essays in honor of Paul Mellon, collector and benefactor : Essays, , National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC & Hanover, NH, 1986, p. 151, fig. 16, N7442.2 M455 1986 (YCBA) [YCBA]
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