Lancelot ('Capability') Brown, 1716–1783, British, St. James's Park, London: Plan, 1770
- Title:
- St. James's Park, London: Plan
- Date:
- 1770
- Materials & Techniques:
- Pen and black and brown ink, watercolor on moderately thick, smooth, cream vellum
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 19 1/2 x 27 1/16 inches (49.5 x 68.7 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in pen and gray ink, lower right: "Piccadilly"; in pen and gray ink, lower right: "Part of The Green Park"; in pen and gray ink, center: "St James"; in pen and gray ink, center left (uppercase): "The Horse Guards"; in pen and gray ink, lower center: "A Plan | with the Alterations | Proposed | for St James Park"
Signed in pen and gray ink, lower center: "L.B."
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1975.2.485
- Classification:
- Drawing & Watercolors-Architectural
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- architectural subject | landscape architecture | parks (recreation areas) | plans (drawings)
- Associated Places:
- London | St. James's Park
- Access:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
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Serving as George III’s landscape gardener in 1764, Lancelot “Capability” Brown proposed for St. James’s Park a curving lake with an island at its center. The design, shown here in plan, would replace the formal gardens and canal with a “naturalized” landscape. Although never executed, Brown’s design is echoed in John Nash’s alterations of 1828, still extant today. Gallery label for installation of YCBA collection, 2014
British Architectural Drawings (Yale Center for British Art) (Yale Center for British Art, 1982-04-21 - 1982-05-30) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]
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