View of the South Avenue at Wimpole, Cambridgeshire
attributed to Robert Greening (d.1758)
Category
Architecture / Drawings
Date
circa 1752
Materials
Pen and ink with wash
Measurements
265 x 415 mm
Place of origin
England
Order this imageCollection
Wimpole, Cambridgeshire
NT 206199
Summary
Attributed to Robert Greening (d.1758), View of the south avenue at Wimpole, Cambridgeshire, c.1752, pen and ink with wash (265 x 415mm).
Full description
In this drawing, Whaddon church, the intended focus of Charles Bridgeman's 'clairvoyée', has been given a false emphasis and exaggerated elevation as have the Royston Downs which rise behind it and here serve as a dramatic backdrop to the main vista. The avenue trees are shown in somewhat fuller form than in Stukeley's sketch which had been made five years earlier. 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.
Makers and roles
attributed to Robert Greening (d.1758), garden designer
References
Adshead 2007: David Adshead, Wimpole Architectural drawings and topographical views, The National Trust, 2007, p.57, no. 80 Jackson-Stops 1979 Gervase Jackson-Stops, 'Exquisite Contrivances, The Park and Gardens of Wimpole - I', Country Life, CLXVI, no. 4287, 6 September 1979, pp. 658-61, p.661, fig.10