Elevation drawing B for the Gothic Folly at Wimpole, Cambridgeshire
Sanderson Miller (1717 - 1780)
Category
Architecture / Drawings
Date
circa 1749 - circa 1751
Materials
Pen and sepia ink with pencil
Measurements
177 x 248 mm
Place of origin
England
Order this imageCollection
Wimpole, Cambridgeshire
NT 206194
Summary
Sanderson Miller (Radway 1717- Radway 1780). Elevation drawing B for the Gothic Folly at Wimpole, Cambridgeshire, c. 1749 - 51, inscribed 'b' in pencil, pen and sepia ink with pencil (177 x 248mm)
Full description
This drawing shows a section of curtain walling, containing an archway and three gothic windows with trefoil headed lights. This corresponds to the inner wall that Miller shows in his perspective drawing (NT 206196) behind the 'enceinte' - presumably he intended the additional illusion of there being a hall or chapel within the defensive bounds of the castle. The idea of this secondary 'scenic drop' was perpetuated in the scheme of the late 1760s. Catalogue entry adapted from David Adshead, Wimpole Architectural drawings and topographical views, The National Trust, 2007
Provenance
Sir Philip Yorke, 1st Earl of Hardwicke, Lord Chancellor, PC, FRS, (1690-1764); bequeathed by Elsie Kipling, Mrs George Bambridge (1896 – 1976), daughter of Rudyard Kipling, to the National Trust together with Wimpole Hall, all its contents and an estate of 3000 acres.
Marks and inscriptions
'b'
Makers and roles
Sanderson Miller (1717 - 1780), architect
References
Adshead 2007: David Adshead, Wimpole Architectural drawings and topographical views, The National Trust, 2007, p.49, no. 69 Adshead 1998 David Adshead, 'The design and building of The Gothic Folly at Wimpole, Cambridgeshire', The Burlington Magazine, vol. CXL, no. 1139, February 1998, pp. 76-84, fig. 3