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watercolor
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Drawing & Watercolor-Architectural
Lowther House, Westmorland: Elevation of the Garden Front
Elevation of garden front of Lowther Castle
Inscribed in graphite, center right: <[...]>
Watermark: Fleur-de-lis within crowned cartouche and W below
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Yale Center for British Art
http://britishart.yale.edu
B1977.14.1072
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q110162174
Not on view
Yale Center for British Art
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13 7/8 x 20 13/16 inches (35.2 x 52.9 cm)
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Colen Campbell, 1676–1729, British
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Colen Campbell
Campbell Colen, 1676–1729
Colen Campbell, 1676–1729
Colen Campbell, 1676–1729
British
1676
1729
male
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Artist
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British
between 1718 and 1729
1718
1729
22
18th century
Graphite, pen and wash within triple-ruled border on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
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The Line of Beauty : British Drawings and Watercolors of the Eighteenth Century (Yale Center for British Art, 2001-05-19 - 2001-08-05)
104
https://britishart.yale.edu/node/690
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exhibition
The Line of Beauty : British Drawings and Watercolors of the Eighteenth Century
Yale Center for British Art
Yale Center for British Art
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http://vocab.getty.edu/ulan/500303557
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British Art Center
Yale Center for British Art
BAC
YCBA
1977
0
300025633
Curator
2001-05-19 - 2001-08-05
2001-05-19
2001-08-05
Yale Center for British Art
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Yale Center for British Art
New Haven
7014210
New Haven
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The eighteenth century in Britain witnessed an extraordinary flourishing of the practice of drawing, among both professional artists and amateurs. This exhibition of one hundred outstanding drawings and watercolors from the Yale Center for British Art celebrated the richness and diversity of its eighteenth century holdings—rivaled only by the great national collections in London—and examined the professional and social roles played by draftsmanship during the period. Among the highlights were works by William Blake, Alexander and John Robert Cozens, Henry Fuseli, Thomas Gainsborough, Allan Ramsay, Paul Sandby, and William Hogarth (whose controversial and innovative theory of the “Line of Beauty” suggested the title for the exhibition). — —
Ranging from large-scale highly finished exhibition watercolors to informal sketches intended for private use and enjoyment, the drawings were arranged in illuminating thematic and contextual groupings: the portrait, landscape, the city, science and natural history, sports and amusements, and the life of the artist. — —
Credits — —
Curated at the Center by Scott Wilcox, Curator of Prints and Drawings, and Gillian Forrester, Assistant Curator of Prints and Drawings, The Line of Beauty also featured drawing manuals and instructional literature of the period, selected from the Center’s rich collection of rare books.
Yale Center for British Art
13834
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NA7746 .W3 A73 (YCBA)
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publication event
Howard Colvin, ^Architectural drawings from Lowther Castle, Westmoreland^, Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain, London, 1980, pp. 26-7, nos. 27-30, NA7746 .W3 A73 (YCBA)
Yale Center for British Art
Howard Colvin
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Colvin Howard
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editor
Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain
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Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain
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Publisher
1980
1980
1980
London
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publication event
Scott Wilcox, ^Line of beauty : British drawings and watercolors of the eighteenth century, ^, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 2001, p. 134, no. 112, NC228 W53 2001 (YCBA)
Yale Center for British Art
Scott Wilcox
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Wilcox Scott
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Author
Gillian Forrester, British
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Forrester Gillian
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Author
Morna O'Neill
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O'Neill Morna
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Author
Kim Sloan
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Sloan Kim
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Author
Yale Center for British Art
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2001
New Haven, CT
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publication event
Eric R. Wolterstorff, ^British architectural drawings^, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, Conn., 1982, p. 8, no. 6, V 0251 (YCBA)
Yale Center for British Art
Eric R. Wolterstorff
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Wolterstorff Eric R.
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Author
Yale Center for British Art
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https://viaf.org/viaf/155449049
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Yale Center for British Art
300025574
Publisher
1982
1982
1982
New Haven, Conn.
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acquisition
Yale Center for British Art
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YCBA
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British Art Center
1977
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1977
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This is part of a set of four surviving drawings at the Yale Center for British Art showing Campbell’s proposal for rebuilding Lowther House for Henry Lowther, third Viscount Lonsdale (1694–1751) (see also B1977.14.1069–1072). The garden front features an attached portico of Corinthian pilasters and a large pediment with two staircases on semicircular plans providing a gradual descent from the principal floor to the garden. These drawings for Lowther were probably made shortly after 1718, when a fire damaged much of the late seventeenth-century house's center block and west wing. Campbell's proposed building rests partly on the footprint of the original, arranged on a north-south axis and between long office wings. --- ---
Colen Campbell was probably introduced to the third Viscount Londsdale by Richard Boyle, third earl of Burlington (1694–1753), a leading figure of the Palladian movement and an important early patron of Campbell. Lord Burlington helped launch the architect's career with introductions to influential and wealthy patrons in London and the north. Campbell made an early attempt to gain Lonsdale's patronage in 1717, when he dedicated to him a design for minor alterations to Lowther House in volume II of Vitruvius Britannicus. The architect’s later design, as shown in the Center’s drawings, was for a more drastic reconstruction, suggesting that it was submitted after the house’s destructive fire. Despite the detailed proposals, Campbell’s designs for Lowther House were never executed. Unfortunately for Campbell, Lonsdale’s finances suffered greatly from the South Sea Bubble crisis in 1720. He sold off more than £26,000 in estates, and he never salvaged the fire-damaged house. In 1806, Lowther House was rebuilt as a castellated mansion designed by Robert Smirke.
--- --- Gallery label for installation of YCBA collection, 2014
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Gallery label
2014
Colen Campbell, along with the architect William Kent and the architect-patron Richard Boyle, Lord Burlington, was one of the chief proponents of the Palladian revival of the first part of the eighteenth century. Campbell was hired by a group of booksellers to act as the author, draftsman, and organizational force of Vitruvius Britannicus (1715-25, a three-volume edition of 100 plates each of plans, elevations, and sections. Planned as a review of contemporary English secular architecture, Campbell's text instead focused attention on the "antique simplicity" of buildings in the Palladian style, derived from the buildings in the and writings of Italian architect Andre Palladio (1508-80). Campbell used three volumes to inveigh against the excess of "foreign" baroque style as "affected and licentious," and he advocated the restrained classicism of a Palladian style, seen a "native" to England in the work of Inigo Jones. The volume was hugely influential and its large distribution sparked a vogue of architectural publications. --- ---
His reputation and architectural theories established with Vitruvius Britannicus, Campbell was able to concentrate on his own architectural pratice. Although he courted government commissions, he found his greatest success as an architect of country houses. He submitted this design to Henry, 3rd Viscount Lonsdale, for the rebuilding of his fire damaged Lowther Castle. Although never executed, the design shows Campbell's begrudging appreciations of the baroque architects such as Sir John Vanbrugh in the use of decorative urns (cat. 110) and giant-order pilasters. However, Campbell here preserves the strict structural symmetry that would become one of the hallmarks of his early neo-Palladian style. This façade would have faced the elaborate garden landscape that surely accompanied the renovations.
--- --- Morna O'Neill
--- --- Wilcox, Forrester, O'Neil, Sloan. The Line of Beauty: British Drawings and Watercolors of the Eighteenth Century. Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 2001. pg. 134, cat. no. 112, N5220 M552 P38 2007 OVERSIZE (YCBA)
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Howard Colvin, Architectural drawings from Lowther Castle, Westmoreland, Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain, London, 1980, pp. 26-7, nos. 27-30, NA7746 .W3 A73 (YCBA)
580360
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related to
Scott Wilcox, Line of beauty : British drawings and watercolors of the eighteenth century, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 2001, p. 134, no. 112, NC228 W53 2001 (YCBA)
4753996
NC228 W53 2001 (YCBA)
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related to
Eric R. Wolterstorff, British architectural drawings, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, Conn., 1982, p. 8, no. 6, V 0251 (YCBA)
3600772
V 0251 (YCBA)
1152925761
1621
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Yale Center for British Art
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Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
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Item
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Yale Center for British Art
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Yale Center for British Art
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Yale Center for British Art