Stowe : a description of the magnificent house and gardens of the Right Honourable Richard Grenville Temple, Earl Temple : Viscount and Baron Cobham : one of His Majesty's most honourable Privy Council, and knight of the most noble order of the garter : embellished with a general plan of the gardens, and also a separate plan of each building with perspective views of the same.
Edition:
A new edition with all the alterations and improvements that have been made therein, to the present time, with the description of the inside of the house.
Published / Created:
London : Printed for John Rivington, in St. Paul's Church-yard; B. Seeley in Buckingham; and T. Hodgkinson at the New Inn at Stowe, 1766.
Physical Description:
44 pages, [20] leaves of plates ([2] folded) : illustrations ; 21 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Paul F. Walter.
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/vufind/Record/3948526
Classification:
Books
Notes:
By Benton Seeley.
Exhibition History:
Art in Focus: John Goto's High Summer (Yale Center for British Art, 2018-04-06 - 2018-08-19)
Subject Terms:
Buckingham, George Nugent Temple Grenville, Marquess of, 1753–1813 -- Homes and haunts. | Temple, Richard Grenville-Temple, Earl, 1711–1779. | Stowe House (Buckinghamshire, England) | Stowe Gardens (England) -- Early works to 1800. | Landscape gardening -- Great Britain -- Early works to 1800. | Country homes -- Great Britain -- Early works to 1800. | Painting -- Private collections -- Great Britain -- Early works to 1800. | Buckingham (England) -- Buildings, structures, etc. -- Early works to 1800. | Architecture, Domestic -- Great Britain -- Early works to 1800. | Hodgkinson, T., -- Publisher.
Form/Genre:
Guidebooks.
Contributors:
Seeley, B. (Benton), illustrator, publisher. | Rivington, John, 1720–1792, publisher. | Fairchild, W., illustrator. | Smith, Gabriel, 1724–1783, engraver. | Miller, J. S. (Engraver), engraver. | Walter, Paul F., donor.