Location

Country: France
City: Strasbourg
Place: UK Delegation to Council of Europe

Jacques Rigaud, a French draughtsman and etcher, mainly of landscapes and topographical views, made numerous drawings of gardens in his home country. Sometime in the 1730s he visited England and found work drawing views of parks and country estates. Rigaud was commissioned by Richard Boyle, third Earl of Burlington to make a series of views of the gardens of Chiswick House. However, following a disagreement with Burlington, the drawings were never published. Charles Bridgeman, Royal Gardener at Stowe, later commissioned 16 views of the gardens he had designed at Stowe for a series of plates. The project cost Bridgeman £1,300 but the garden designer died before Rigaud’s prints were published under the direction of Bridgeman’s widow, Sarah.

Places

England, Middlesex, London, Hampton Court Palace

Subjects

topography, landscape C18th, genre, tree, dog, river, hill, man, woman, 18th century costume, dress, coat, stockings, waistcoat, topiary, formal garden, palace, fountain, bench

Materials & Techniques

engraving, coloured engraving

Artist

Jacques Rigaud (c.1681 - 1754)

Title

Prospect of Hampton Court from the Garden Side / Veue du Chateau d’Hampton-Court du Côte du Jardin

Date

1736

Medium

Coloured engraving

Acquisition

Purchased from Frank T Sabin, October 1961

GAC number

5620