Stourhead Pleasure Grounds, View to the Bristol Cross and Village
Coplestone Warre Bampfylde (Taunton 1720 - Hestercombe 1791)
Category
Art / Drawings and watercolours
Date
1770 (signed and dated)
Materials
Watercolour on paper
Measurements
521 x 356 mm (20 1/2 x 14 in)
Place of origin
Stourhead
Order this imageCollection
Stourhead, Wiltshire
NT 730732
Summary
Watercolour on paper, Stourhead Pleasure Grounds, View to the Bristol Cross and Village by Copplestone Warre Bampfylde (Taunton 1720 - Hestercombe 1791), signed and dated: C.W. Bam[p]fylde and 1770. A view from the west bank of the lake, looking towards the church and market cross and showing the bridge and temple of Flora. The artist was a Somerset gentlemen of Hestercombe, where he made a landscape garden with a spectacular cascade, and a friend of Henry Hoare II. Engraved by in 1777 by Francis Vivares.
Provenance
Acquired by Henry Hoare II (1705-1785) and thence by descent; given to the National Trust along with the house, its grounds, and the rest of the contents by Sir Henry Hugh Arthur Hoare, 6th Bt (1865–1947) in 1946
Makers and roles
Coplestone Warre Bampfylde (Taunton 1720 - Hestercombe 1791), photographer
References
Cox 2012, Oliver Cox, 'A Mistakne Iconography: Eighteenth-Century Visitor Accounts of Stourhead, Garden History, Vol. 40, No. 1, Summer 2012, pp. 98-116