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Castle Howard, Yorkshire

Architectural Design
ca. 1699-1720 (designed)
Artist/Maker
Vanbrugh (architect)
Hawksmoor, Nicholas (architect)
Place of origin
England (made)

Unfinished perspective view of Castle Howard from the north-east approximately as built.

Object details

Categories
Architecture
Designs
Drawings
Object type
Architectural design
TitleCastle Howard, Yorkshire (generic title)
Materials and techniques
Pencil
Pencil
Architectural Drawing
Brief description
Unfinished perspective view of Castle Howard by Sir John Vanbrugh and Nicholas Hawksmoor; ca. 1699-1720.
Physical description
Unfinished perspective view of Castle Howard from the north-east approximately as built.
Dimensions
  • Height: 67.3cm
  • Length: 16.8cm
Taken from 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, cat. 2.
Style
Baroque
Production typeUnique
Credit line
Given by Art Fund
Object history
Purchased from the Marquis of Bute at auction at Sotheby's on 23 May 1951 by the National Arts Collection Fund and given to the V & A.
Subject depicted
Castle
Place depicted
Castle Howard
Bibliographic references
  • Lorimer, C. and Newton, C., The collection of drawings by Sir John Vanbrugh and his circle in the Victoria and Albert Museum, V & A, 1996, p. 14, cat. 9.
  • L. Whistler, The Imagination of Vanbrugh and his Fellow Artists, 1954, p. 74 and Fig 18.
  • Victoria and Albert Museum Department of Prints and Drawings and Department of Paintings, Accessions 1951 London: HMSO, 1962.
  • Victoria and Albert Museum, Department of Prints and Drawings and Department of Paintings, Accessions 1951, London, Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1962.
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
E.431-1951

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Record createdMarch 3, 2009
Record URL
https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O195678/castle-howard-yorkshire-architectural-design-vanbrugh/
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