Stowe Gardens in Buckinghamshire, belonging to the right honourable the Lord Viscount Cobham : laid out by Mr. Bridgman, principal gardener to their majesties King George I and II / delineated in a large plan and fifteen perspective views : drawn on the spot by Mons. Rigaud, and engraved by him and Mons. Bernard Baron = Les jardins de Stowe dans le Comte de Bucks, appartenant a le Tres-Honorable Seigneur Le Vicomte de Cobham / tracé par Mr Bridgman, jardinier principal aux S. Maj. Brit. George I & II ; en une grande plan & XV. veües perspective ; designé sur la place par M. Rigaud, & gravé par le mesme & M. Bernard Baron.
Alternate Title(s):
Jardins de Stowe dans le Comte de Bucks ...
Published / Created:
London : Printed for Tho. Bowles in St. Paul's Church-Yard, W.H. Toms, in Union-Court, Hlbourn, and J. Bowles, in Cornhill, MDCCXLVI [1746]
Physical Description:
1 leaf, 16 leaves of plates : illustrations ; 57 cm
Holdings:
Rare Books and Manuscripts Folio B 2017 3Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Related Content:
View a selection of digital images in the Yale Center for British Art's online catalogue
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/orbis:3501808
Notes:
Title page and plate captions in English and French.Plates have imprint: "Published by S. Bridgeman, May 12, 1739." The plan and views were issued in 1739 without title page. The plan was titled: A general plan of the woods, park and gardens of Stowe, the seat of the Right Honourable the Lord Viscount Cobham : with several perspective views in the gardens."Plates 1-4 are folded at the gutter (spreading across facing pages).Country and the city revisited : England and the politics of culture, 1550-1850, page 136BAC: British Art Center copy bound in contemporary quarter calf and marbled boards. Armorial bookplate: Earl of Morley.
Exhibition History:
Art in Focus: John Goto's High Summer (Yale Center for British Art, 2018-04-06 - 2018-08-19)
Subject Terms:
Cobham, Richard Temple, Viscount, 1669?-1749 -- Homes and haunts -- England -- Buckinghamshire. | Gardens, English -- Early works to 1800. | Landscape architecture -- Early works to 1800. | Stowe Gardens (England) | Morley, Earl of -- Bookplate.
