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Design - Castle Howard, Yorkshire

Castle Howard, Yorkshire

  • Object:

    Design

  • Date:

    ca. 1699 (designed)

  • Artist/Maker:

    Vanbrugh, John (Sir), born 1664 - died 1726 (architect)
    Hawksmoor, Nicholas, born 1661 - died 1736 (architect)

  • Materials and Techniques:

    Pen, ink and wash

  • Museum number:

    E.418-1951

  • Gallery location:

    Prints & Drawings Study Room, level E, case A, shelf 150, box D

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This early plan has no dome and wings springing from the ends of the ranges. Each range has six bays. This plan relates closely to the elevation shown in another drawing in the museum collection (E.420-1951). The kitchen wing here shown is approximately as executed, but it is attached to the end of the long garden range, instead of to the central pile. The main block was afterwards extended considerably in length, the hall was completely re-planned, the quadrants were enlarged and many other details modified.

Physical description

Early plan of the ground floor of Castle Howard, Yorkshire with many variations from the design as executed. Scale: 1 inch to 20 feet.

Date

ca. 1699 (designed)

Artist/maker

Vanbrugh, John (Sir), born 1664 - died 1726 (architect)
Hawksmoor, Nicholas, born 1661 - died 1736 (architect)

Materials and Techniques

Pen, ink and wash

Dimensions

Height: 27 cm, Length: 40.6 cm

Object history note

Whistler suggests 1699 as the date of this plan (Whistler, 1954). This early plan has no dome and wings springing from the ends of the ranges. Each range has six bays. This plan relates closely to the elevation shown in E.420-1951. The kitchen wing here shown is approximately as executed, but it is attached to the end of the long garden range, instead of to the central pile. The main block was afterwards extended considerably in length, the hall was completely re-planned, the quadrants were enlarged and many other details modified. A block plan of Castle Howard drawn on the back of a drawing for the Charles II building at Greenwich Hospital (E.398-1951) is catalogued under Sir Christopher Wren and Nicholas Hawksmoor. Reference is made to E.418-1951 in K. Downes (1959).

Purchased from the Marquis of Bute at auction at Sotheby's (lot 19.1) on 23 May 1951 by the National Arts Collection Fund and given to the V & A.

Descriptive line

Early plan of the ground floor of Castle Howard by Sir John Vanbrugh and Nicholas Hawksmoor; ca. 1699.

Bibliographic References (Citation, Note/Abstract, NAL no)

Lorimer C. and Newton, C. (ed.), The collection of drawings by Sir John Vanbrugh and his circle in the Victoria and Albert Museum, V & A, 1996, p. 12-13, cat. 3.
L. Whistler, The Imagination of Vanbrugh and His Fellow Artists, 1954, pp. 41-44 and Fig 11.
K. Downes, Hawksmoor, London 1959, p 73.

Subjects depicted

Castle; Plan; Castle Howard

Categories

Drawings; Designs

Production Type

Unique

Collection code

PDP

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