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unknown artist, seventeenth century, Denham Place, Buckinghamshire, ca. 1695

Creator:: unknown artist seventeenth century
Title:: Denham Place, Buckinghamshire
Date:: ca. 1695
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 40 x 49 3/4 inches (101.6 x 126.4 cm)
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:: Public Domain
Accession Number:: B1976.7.116
Classification:: Paintings
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Link to Frame:: B1976.7.116FR
Subject Terms:: architectural subject | architecture | bird's-eye view | canals | country house | fences | gardens | gates | hills | horses (animals) | house | landscape | mansion | path | pavilion (building division) | people | road | sculptures | statues | topiary | trees | trellis-work | walls
Associated Places:: Buckinghamshire | Denham | England | Misbourne | United Kingdom
Access:: Not on view
Link:: https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:338
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This prospect shows the estate of Sir Roger Hill, a staunch supporter of the Glorious Revolution of 1688 (in which the Catholic King James II was supplanted by his daughter Queen Mary II and her husband, his nephew the Protestant King William III of Orange). Built in the Dutch taste design by William Stanton, the estate exhibited Hill's ostentatious political allegiance to William and Mary. The emphasis on garden sculpture follows the Dutch fashions popular in England after 1688: there were at least sixty-five statues in the gardens at Denham Place, including two monumental classical figures of gods at the entrance to the estate. Apart from large statues, twenty-four dancing boys adorned the long wall separating the stable yard from the formal terraces. Garden statues made of lead were generally painted bright colors.

Gallery label for installation of YCBA collection, 2005

Art in Focus : William III (Yale Center for British Art, 2011-04-08 - 2011-07-31) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition] [Exhibition Description]

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) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]

The Changing Garden: Four Hundred Years of European and American Gardens and Parks (Dixon Gallery & Gardens, 2003-10-19 - 2004-01-11) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]

The Changing Garden: Four Hundred Years of European and American Gardens and Parks (Cantor Art Center, Stanford University, 2003-06-11 - 2003-09-07) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]

Juxtapositions (Yale Center for British Art, 1997-11-19 - 1998-01-04) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]

The Anglo-Dutch Garden in the age of William and Mary (Christie's (UK), 1989-01-03 - 1989-02-02) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]

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]

The Garden (Victoria and Albert Museum, 1979-05-21 - 1979-08-26) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]

Malcolm Cormack, Concise Catalogue of Paintings in the Yale Center for British Art, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1985, pp. 30-31, N590.2 .A83 (YCBA) [YCBA]

Country houses in Great Britain., Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 1979, pp. 8,9,12,26-27, 104, no. 7, pl. 7, N6764 Y34 1979 (YCBA) [YCBA]

John Harris, The artist and the country house, a history of country house and garden view painting in Britain, 1540-1870 , Sotheby Parke Bernet, London Totowa, N.J., 1979, pp. 80, 91, 95, 110, 122, 123, no. 121, fig. 121 and col. p. XIV, N6764 H36 + (YCBA) [YCBA]

Christopher Hussey, Denham Place - I. Buckinghamshire : the Seat of Mr. & Mrs. Basil Fothergill, the Seat of Mr. & Mrs. Basil Fothergill , Country Life, vol. 57, London, April 18, 1925, pp. 602, 608, fig. 14, S3 C68 OVERSIZE (YCBA) [YCBA]

David Jacques, Gardens of Court and Country : English Design , 1630-1730, New Haven : Yale Univeristy Press, 2017, p. 154, fig. 120, SB466 G7 +J334 2017 (YCBA) [YCBA]

The Anglo-Dutch garden in the age of William and Mary, De Gouden Eeuw van de Hollandse Tuinkunst , Journal of Garden History., vol. 8, nos. 2 & 3, London : Taylor & Francis, c1988, April - September 1988, pp. 235-36, no. 93, pl. 93, SB457.6 H85 (LC)+ Oversize (YCBA) Special Double issue has been separately catalogued. [YCBA]

William III, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 2011, p. 22, V2340 [ORBIS]

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