William Woollett
A View of the Foots-Cray Place in Kent, the Seat of Bourchier Cleeve Esquire
1759
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William Woollett
A View of the Foots-Cray Place in Kent, the Seat of Bourchier Cleeve Esquire
1759
Physical Qualities
Etching and engraving, Sheet (trimmed within platemark): 368 x 541 mm. (14 1/2 x 21 5/16 in.)
Credit Line
Garrett Collection
Object Number
1984.81.1019
William Woollett created this portrait of the estate of Bourchier Cleeve after a new house was constructed in the fashionable style of Palladio’s Villa Rotonda. In the tradition of great country houses, visitors were invited to admire the house and its substantial collection of old master paintings, as well as its gardens. In this print, a party of visitors is engaged in the picturesque pastime of looking through a viewing apparatus at the estate’s grounds.
Publication References
Bryan, Michael, Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers, London: G. Bell, 1903-1905, no. 59. Clayton, Timothy, The English Print 1688-1803, New Haven: Yale University Press, 1997, p. 163, ill. p. 168 no. 185.
T. Harrison Garrett, Baltimore, purchased 1885 (Lugt supp. 2435b); James L. Claghorn, Philadelphia (Lugt supp. 555c)
Taking in the View: English Watercolors and Prints
Fagan, Louis, A Catalogue Raisonné of the Engraved Works of William Woollett, London: Fine Art Society, 1885, no. 34.
Signed: 1
Inscribed: lower right in plate: "W. Woollett et Sculp."; lower center in plate: "A View of Foots-Cray Place in Kent, the Seat of Bourchier Cleeve Esq.r / Veüe de Foots -Cray Place, dans la Comté de Kent. Maison de Bourchier Cleeve Escuyer."; by later hand, lower left in graphite: "Bryan 59"; by later hand, lower right in graphite: "6755"; by later hand, upper left verso in graphite: "164 / 2"; by later hand, lower left in graphite: "19"; by later hand, lower right in graphite: "6e / 2 of 20" / 286" [address trimmed off]
Markings: none - none