Plan of Rothley Lake with proposed new house, stables and garden
Lancelot ‘Capability’ Brown (bap.1716 - 1783)
Category
Architecture / Drawings
Date
1760 - 1769
Materials
paper
Measurements
496 x 643 x 25 mm
Place of origin
Durham
Order this imageCollection
Wallington, Northumberland
NT 582321
Caption
Rothley Lake is situated between the small hamlets and farms of Rothley East Shield and Rothley West Shield on the Wallington estate’s far eastern boundary. The Rothely Lake landscape designs were implemented and paid for by Sir Walter Calverley Blackett, 2nd Bt (1707-1777), and were a part of landscaping schemes specific to Wallington. The schemes were associated with designs produced by Lancelot ‘Capability’ Brown. However, it is probable that Brown’s plan were not fully implemented. Other landscape designers included Daniel Garret, James Paine and William Newton and it was probably another, Thomas Wright, who probably implemented aspects of Brown’s plans.
Summary
Plan of Rothley Lake with proposed new house, stables and garden at end by Lancelot 'Capability' Brown (Kirkharle 1716 - London 1783), 1760s.
Provenance
Gift from Sir Charles Philips Trevelyan 3rd Bt
Makers and roles
Lancelot ‘Capability’ Brown (bap.1716 - 1783), landscape architect
Exhibition history
Landscape and Imagination: From Gardens to Land Art, Compton Verney , 2024
References
Stroud 1975 Dorothy Stroud, Capability Brown. London, Faber & Faber, 1975, pp. 25-6, 43