Back front of Chiswick House, Hounslow, and part of the garden, with a distant view of the orangery and greenhouse, and figures in the foreground (after John Donowell)
John Fougeron (fl.c.1748 - c.1770)
Category
Art / Prints
Date
1753
Materials
Paper, Wood
Measurements
270 x 430 mm
Order this imageCollection
Dyrham, Gloucestershire
NT 452641.5
Summary
Print, engraving, Back facade of Chiswick House, Hounslow, and part of the garden, with a distant view of the orangery and greenhouse, and figures in the foreground (after John Donowell) by John Fougeron (fl.c.1750-1769). The marble statue made in 1749 (bill payment) for Richard Boyle, 3rd Earl of Burlington and 4th Earl of Cork (1694 - 1753) at Chiswick House (now in Chatsworth) can be seen in the foreground centre whilst the wolf is behind. Capricorn (goat) was the Roman Emperor Augustus's sign of the zodiac whom Burlington admired. One of a set of ten engravings of Chiswick in Hogarth frames. (a) View from the river by Jno. Fougeron after P. Brooks, No.27 (Boydell) 1750. (e) Set of six after J. Donowell - circa 1753. The house; the back and front part of the garden; See also DYR.D.6.a-d and DYR.6.f-j.
Provenance
Indigenous collection purchased by Ministry of Works in 1956 and given to Dyrham Park in 1961
Makers and roles
John Fougeron (fl.c.1748 - c.1770), engraver (printmaker) after John Donowell (fl.1753 - 1786), artist