• Jacques Rigaud (draughtsman)
• Charles Bridgeman (client)
• Jacques Rigaud (engraver (printmaker))
• Bernard Baron (engraver (printmaker))
• Viscount Richard Temple Cobham (client)
• Charles Bridgeman (landscape architect)

A plan and fifteen views of the gardens at Stowe

designed 1733-1738

- The Stowe engravings illustrate a garden design of the so-called Transitional Phase in English landscape history. While containing many formal elements typical of the 17th century -- such as parterres, avenues of clipped trees and hedges, fountains and straight-sided canals -- Stowe, as depicted in these engravings, also incorporates many garden buildings and, most importantly, ha-has that are characteristic of the 18th-century English landscape garden.
- The marbled and leather-edged portfolio in which the prints were acquired is stored separately in a solander box (size IV).

• record drawings
• topographical views

Engraving

sheet: 94.7 x 58.8 cm

DR1982:0096:001-016

16 loose engravings, formerly bound between marbled paper board covers. The engravings, together with the former covers, are enclosed in a brown, cloth-covered dealer's box with the title "Views of Stowe" imprinted in gold letters on the top surface.

imprinted - Each of the views is titled in English and French, bears the names of the artists and publisher, and is numbered (except No. 5, which has been numbered by hand).

• architecture
• landscape architecture
• topographic

Contains:

• DR1982:0096:001, General plan of Stowe, designed ca. 1738
• DR1982:0096:002, View of such parts as are seen from the Building at the Head of the Lake, designed 1733-1738
• DR1982:0096:003, View at the Entrance between the Pavilions, designed 1733-1738
• DR1982:0096:004, View from the foot of the Pyramid, designed 1733-1738
• DR1982:0096:005, View from the Portico of the House to the Park, designed 1733-1738
• DR1982:0096:006, View of the House from the Equestrian Statue, designed 1733-1738
• DR1982:0096:007, View from Gibb's Building, designed 1733-1738
• DR1982:0096:008, View of the Queen's Theatre from the Rotunda; from a portfolio of engravings of the gardens at Stowe at Buckingham, Buckinghamshire, England, 1739
• DR1982:0096:009, View from Nelson's Seat, designed 1733-1738
• DR1982:0096:010, View from the Brick Temple, designed 1733-1738
• DR1982:0096:011, View of the Great Basin from the Entrance of the Great Walk to the House, designed 1733-1738
• DR1982:0096:012, View from the head of the Lake; from a portfolio of engravings of the gardens at Stowe at Buckingham, Buckinghamshire, England, 1739
• DR1982:0096:013, View at the Lesser Obelisk, designed 1733-1738
• DR1982:0096:014, View of the House from the Parterre, designed 1733-1738
• DR1982:0096:015, View at the Lesser Obelisk, designed 1733-1738
• DR1982:0096:016, View of the Parterre from the Portico of the House; from a portfolio of engravings of the gardens at Stowe at Buckingham, Buckinghamshire, England, 1739