Elevation drawing C 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
206 x 324 mm
Place of origin
England
Order this imageCollection
Wimpole, Cambridgeshire
NT 206195
Summary
Sanderson Miller (Radway 1717- Radway 1780). Elevation drawing C for the Gothic Folly at Wimpole, Cambridgeshire, c. 1749 - 51, inscribed 'C' in red ink, pen and sepia ink with pencil (206 x 324mm).
Full description
This third elevation appears to show part of the curtain wall, engaged with towers at either end with a gateway flanked by arrow loops partway along its length. The drawing might otherwise be an alternative to 'B'. The pencil additions include three armorial shields above the gateway - elements that were to be incorporated in the south-west side of the folly's curtain wall. 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
Top, in the centre: C [in red ink]
Makers and roles
Sanderson Miller (1717 - 1780), architect
References
Adshead 2007: David Adshead, Wimpole Architectural drawings and topographical views, The National Trust, 2007, pp. 70 - 71 cat.no.6 Visions of Ruin: Architectural fantasies & designs for garden follies, The Soane Gallery, Sir John Soane's Museum, 2 July - 8 August, 1999, pp.19 - 20 cat. no. 6 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. 4