The Hoo, Kimpton, Hertfordshire: Elevations and Details of a Gateway
Date:
ca. 1760-1764
Materials & Techniques:
Graphite, pen and brown ink, and watercolor on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 12 x 19 1/4 inches (30.5 x 48.9 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed lower left in pen and brown ink: "The Wall is 14 [inches] thick the Rusticks project 2 1/2 [inches] | before the Wall & the pilasters project [cancelled] 1/4 of | their width w.n 5 inches"; in graphite, upper center: "1 5/8", "3 1/8", "5 7/8", "7 in"; in graphite, lower center, bar scale labeled: "1" to "10 ft"
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
England | Hertfordshire | United Kingdom | Kimpton
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
The Line of Beauty : British Drawings and Watercolors of the Eighteenth Century (Yale Center for British Art, 2001-05-19 - 2001-08-05)British Architectural Drawings (Yale Center for British Art) (Yale Center for British Art, 1982-04-21 - 1982-05-30)
Publications:
John Harris, Sir William Chambers : Knight of the polar star, Pennsylvania State University Press, University Park, PA, 1970, pp. 210-11, NJ18 .C37 H37 1970 + Oversize (YCBA)Scott Wilcox, Line of beauty : British drawings and watercolors of the eighteenth century, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 2001, p. 138, no. 116, NC228 W53 2001 (YCBA)Eric R. Wolterstorff, British architectural drawings, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, Conn., 1982, p. 9, no. 8, V 0251 (YCBA)