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
947 x 525 mm
Place of origin
England
Order this imageCollection
Wimpole, Cambridgeshire
NT 206296
Summary
Charles Bridgeman (d.1738). Design for the 'Grand Parade' at Wimpole Hall, Cambridgeshire, c.1721, pen and ink with wash, badly torn with a number of areas missing (755 x 520mm), scale 1 in: 100ft, watermark: fleur de lys [indistinct]. Design NT 206204 is nearly identical.
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), garden designer
References
Adshead 2007: David Adshead, Wimpole Architectural drawings and topographical views, The National Trust, 2007, p. 33, no. 35 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(b) 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. 231