Another View of The Pantheon Cottage (after Nicholson)
after Francis Nicholson (Pickering 1753 – London 1844)
Category
Photographs
Date
c. 1913
Materials
Glass
Measurements
215 x 165 x 2 mm
Place of origin
Stourhead
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Stourhead, Wiltshire
NT 732637.7
Summary
Whole plate glass negative, one of a set of 25, Another View of The Pantheon Cottage, after Francis Nicholson (Pickering 1753 – London 1844), circa 1913. The original watercolour, now in the British Museum (1944,1014.130), is from an album described in the posthumous catalogue of Sir Richard Colt Hoare’s library as: ‘Rural Scenery of Stourhead, consisting of 33 Magnificent Drawings, by P. [sic] Nicholson. Atlas size, bound in whole Russia. A most Splendid Volume.’ The album was sold at Sotheby’s, 16 July 1913, Lot 242, purchased by Walter Vernon Daniell, when these photographs were probably taken.The Pantheon Cottage is now known as the Gothic Cottage.
Provenance
Bequeathed by Sir Henry Hugh Arthur Hoare, 6th Bt (1865 – 1947), 1946.
Makers and roles
after Francis Nicholson (Pickering 1753 – London 1844), artist of the original