Design for the 'Grand Parade' at Wimpole Hall, Cambridgeshire
Charles Bridgeman (d.1738)
Category
Architecture / Drawings
Date
circa 1721
Materials
Pen and ink with wash
Measurements
750 x 520 mm
Place of origin
England
Order this imageCollection
Wimpole, Cambridgeshire
NT 206204
Summary
Charles Bridgeman (1690 - 1738). Design for the 'Grand Parade' at Wimpole Hall, Cambridgeshire, c. 1721, pen and ink with wash (750 x 520mm), scale: 1in to 100ft.
Full description
This, and the following, nearly identical but badly torn, drawing NT 206296 proposes a 'Grand Parade' to the south of the house. Here the inner and outer edge of the surrounding phalanx of trees is shown stepped, and to either side Bridgeman proposes bosquets - square enclosures of geometric planting. Catalogue entry adapted from David Adshead, Wimpole Architectural drawings and topographical views, The National Trust, 2007.
Provenance
Edward Harley, 2nd Earl of Oxford (1689 – 1741); 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
Charles Bridgeman (d.1738), landscape architect
References
Adshead 2007: David Adshead, Wimpole Architectural drawings and topographical views, The National Trust, 2007, p.33, no. 34 Willis 1993: Peter Willis, 'Charles Bridgeman and the English Landscape Garden: New Documents and Attributions', English Architecture Public and Private: Essays for Kerry Downes, (ed. John Bold and Edward Chaney), 1993, pp. 246-64, fig. 102 (a) Jackson-Stops 1992 Gervase Jackson-Stops, 'An English Arcadia: Designs for Gardens and Garden Buildings in the care of the National Trust 1600-1990', exh.cat. (1992), pp. 42-3, cat. no. 18 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 Willis, 1977: Peter Willis. Charles Bridgeman and the English Landscape Garden. Vol. 17. Studies in Architecture. London: Zwemmer, 1977. [Reprinted with supplementary plates and additional documents, drawings and attributions - Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 2002], pl. 232