The Old Print Shop

A View of the Lawn from the Palace, with the Pagoda, the Temple of Victory, and the Colonade in the Royal Gardens at Kew.

  • ARTIST: William Woollett

  • PUBLISHER: London, Printed for Robert Sayer in Fleet Street, Carrington Bowles in St. Pauils Church yard, & John Bowles in Cornhil.

  • MEDIUM: Engraving,

    DATE: 1763.

  • EDITION SIZE: Image size 12 7/8 x 20 1/4" (32.7 x 51.5 cm).

  • DESCRIPTION: Wm Woollett delin. J.S. Mason Sculpt. A view from Kew Palace, aka “The White House”.<br><br> In the distance is the newly built Great Pagoda. The Pagoda was completed in 1762 as a gift for Princess Augusta, the founder of the Gardens. It was one of several Chinese buildings designed for Kew by Sir William Chambers.<br><br> The plate was engraved by Mason after the painting by William Woollett for William Chambers’s Plans, Elevations, Sections and Perspective Views of the Gardens and Buildings at Kew, published in 1763 and dedicated to the Dowager Princess of Wales. The publication was ‘undertaken by Royal Command’ and funded ‘by Royal Bounty’. <br><br> Title given in English and French. <br><br> Kew Gardens, formally the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, is today one of the finest botanic gardens in the world.

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  • CONDITION: Good condition and color.

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