Artist
Jacques Rigaud(French, c. 1681–1754)French, c. 1681–1754
CultureFrench
Titles
- The Rotunda at Stowe
Date1733
Place depictedUnited Kingdom
MediumPen and black and gray ink with gray wash on two joined sheets of laid paper
DimensionsSheet: 11 × 18 7/8 in. (27.9 × 48 cm)
Credit LineThe Stuart Collection, museum purchase funded by Francita Stuart Koelsch Ulmer in memory of Peter Hubbard Koelsch, who was a student at Stowe School in the 1930s
Object number2018.395
Non exposé
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Department
Prints and DrawingsSpecial Collections
Object Type
Exhibition HistoryThe Spirit and Force of Art: Drawing in Britain 1600–1750. Lowell Libson & Jonny Yarker Ltd, 2018, cat. 37. (cat., Jonathan Yarker and Richard Stephens).
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
none
Watermark: Strasburg Lily with shield and lettering LVG (likely early 18th century Dutch paper) (Churchill 406)
Catalogue raisonnéJohn Harris, Catalogue of British Drawings for Architecture...in American Collections, 1971, p. 182 (The Metropolitan Museum of Art drawing).
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