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

View of the Great Basin from the Entrance of the Great Walk to the House

designed 1733-1738

- A view of the Guglio Fountain and, further back, of the Lake Pavilions as seen from near by and looking southeast along the main axis of the house.
- The marbled and leather-edged portfolio in which the prints were acquired is stored separately in a solander box (size IV).

• record drawings
• topographical view

Engraving

plate mark: 35.6 x 51.6 cm sheet: 39.7 x 58.6 cm

DR1982:0096:011

• rendering

• perspective drawing

Formerly bound with fifteen engraved views between marbled paper board covers.

imprinted - l.l.: "Published by S. Bridgeman May 12. 1739."; l.r.: "Rigaud & Baron del. & Sculp. / 11"; b.l.: "View of the Great Bason [sic] from the Entrance of the Great Walk to the House."; b.r.: "Veüe du Grand Bassin, prise a l'Entree de la Grand Alleé qui monte au Chateau."

• architecture
• architecture de paysage
• topographique