1707 (made)
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Object Type
This print is an engraving, an image made by cutting lines into the surface of a flat piece of metal, inking the plate, and transferring the ink held in the lines onto a sheet of paper.
Subjects Depicted
Ragley Hall, near Alcester in Warwickshire, was commissioned by Viscount Conway in 1679. The architect and designer Robert Hooke (1635-1703) made detailed designs for the house and its gardens, and building began in 1680. It ranked as one of the most substantial houses of its day, although Conway's untimely death in 1683 cut short the building programme. It was not finally finished until the 19th century, by which time Hooke's original plan had been added to and details altered. This view shows Hooke's original gardens, which were re-laid in the late 19th century.
People
Leonard Knyff (1650-1722) was a Dutch draughtsman and painter. He worked with Johannes Kip (1653-1722), a Dutch draughtsman and engraver, on topographical views of British country houses and gardens.
Trading
Printed views by Kip after Knyff were published in the first volume of Britannia Illustrata (1707), of which this print was plate 71, in a second volume (1715), and again in Le Nouveau Theatre de la Grande Bretagne (1715). Le Nouveau Theatre reprinted the whole of Britannia Illustrata as well as other topographical plates.
This print is an engraving, an image made by cutting lines into the surface of a flat piece of metal, inking the plate, and transferring the ink held in the lines onto a sheet of paper.
Subjects Depicted
Ragley Hall, near Alcester in Warwickshire, was commissioned by Viscount Conway in 1679. The architect and designer Robert Hooke (1635-1703) made detailed designs for the house and its gardens, and building began in 1680. It ranked as one of the most substantial houses of its day, although Conway's untimely death in 1683 cut short the building programme. It was not finally finished until the 19th century, by which time Hooke's original plan had been added to and details altered. This view shows Hooke's original gardens, which were re-laid in the late 19th century.
People
Leonard Knyff (1650-1722) was a Dutch draughtsman and painter. He worked with Johannes Kip (1653-1722), a Dutch draughtsman and engraver, on topographical views of British country houses and gardens.
Trading
Printed views by Kip after Knyff were published in the first volume of Britannia Illustrata (1707), of which this print was plate 71, in a second volume (1715), and again in Le Nouveau Theatre de la Grande Bretagne (1715). Le Nouveau Theatre reprinted the whole of Britannia Illustrata as well as other topographical plates.
Object details
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| Object type | |
| Materials and techniques | Etching, ink on paper |
| Brief description | Engraving of Ragley Hall, Warwickshire |
| Physical description | Etching print on paper |
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| Gallery label | British Galleries:
Baroque country houses were designed in careful unity with their surrounding gardens and park. Here, the courtyard, pleasure gardens, kitchen gardens and parkland are balanced and enclosed by rigid avenues of trees.(27/03/2003) |
| Credit line | Given by J. W. F. Morton |
| Object history | Plate 71 of 'Britannia Illustrata or Views of Several of the Queens Palaces also of the Principal Seats of the Nobility and Gentry of Great Britain'. Drawn by Leonard Knyff (born in Haarlem, The Netherlands, 1650, died in London, 1722); etched by Johannes Kip (born in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 1653, died in London, 1722); published in London |
| Summary | Object Type This print is an engraving, an image made by cutting lines into the surface of a flat piece of metal, inking the plate, and transferring the ink held in the lines onto a sheet of paper. Subjects Depicted Ragley Hall, near Alcester in Warwickshire, was commissioned by Viscount Conway in 1679. The architect and designer Robert Hooke (1635-1703) made detailed designs for the house and its gardens, and building began in 1680. It ranked as one of the most substantial houses of its day, although Conway's untimely death in 1683 cut short the building programme. It was not finally finished until the 19th century, by which time Hooke's original plan had been added to and details altered. This view shows Hooke's original gardens, which were re-laid in the late 19th century. People Leonard Knyff (1650-1722) was a Dutch draughtsman and painter. He worked with Johannes Kip (1653-1722), a Dutch draughtsman and engraver, on topographical views of British country houses and gardens. Trading Printed views by Kip after Knyff were published in the first volume of Britannia Illustrata (1707), of which this print was plate 71, in a second volume (1715), and again in Le Nouveau Theatre de la Grande Bretagne (1715). Le Nouveau Theatre reprinted the whole of Britannia Illustrata as well as other topographical plates. |
| Other number | Plate 71 - Plate number |
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| Accession number | E.1755-1979 |
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| Record created | March 27, 2003 |
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