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

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

- A view, reversing Plate 14, of the formal parterre on the south side of the house as seen from the top of the steps on that side 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: 36.3 x 50.7 cm sheet: 39.5 x 58.6 cm

DR1982:0096:016

• 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. / 16"; b.l.: "View of the Perterre [sic] from the Portico of the House."; b.r.: "Veüe du Parterre prise sur le Perron du Chateau."

• architecture
• architecture de paysage
• topographique