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Joseph Michael Gandy ARA (1771 - 1843)
View of a Design for an Entrance Gateway to a Park [Bagshot Park, Surrey]
1799
Watercolour on paper
Inscription: AN ENTRANCE TO A PARK
Museum number: P134
On display: Picture Room - inside planes (by arrangement or on some pre-booked tours)
All spaces are in No. 13 Lincoln's Inn Fields unless identified as in No. 12, Soane's first house.
For tours https://www.soane.org/your-visit - not all tours show the inside of all planes.
Curatorial note
Exhib: RA 1799, no. 1013 under the [incorrect] title 'The entrance into Bagshot Park, a seat of H.R.H. Prince William of Gloucester'. It wa actually for the Duke of Clarence.
The entrance is in three parts, that is, a single storey lodge with pavilion roof on either side of a taller archway. The lodges each have a single segmental-headed window onto the road. There is a striking use of brick with knapped flint so that there are flint pilasters and flint is used in the gaps between the brick toothing. The arch is crowned by a stone coat-of-arms and two antefixes.
Bagshot Park is a royal residence within Windsor Great Park and Soane's work there (demolished) was undertaken for the Office of Woods and Forests to which Soane was appointed Deputy Surveyor in 1795. The work was on behalf of the Duke of Clarence, later William IV, who lived at Bagshot Park until 1816.
A similar combination of flint and brick was employed by Soane in his Cumberland Gate to Hyde Park (also for the Office of Woods and Forests and, like Bagshot, demolished) as well as in the surviving entrance to Pitzhanger Manor, Ealing his own country home and the (demolished) dairy at Betchworth Castle, Surrey. This use of colour and texture in these outbuildings and entrance lodges created a picturesque effect, anchoring them firmly in the English landscape by the use of natural, local materials.
The entrance is in three parts, that is, a single storey lodge with pavilion roof on either side of a taller archway. The lodges each have a single segmental-headed window onto the road. There is a striking use of brick with knapped flint so that there are flint pilasters and flint is used in the gaps between the brick toothing. The arch is crowned by a stone coat-of-arms and two antefixes.
Bagshot Park is a royal residence within Windsor Great Park and Soane's work there (demolished) was undertaken for the Office of Woods and Forests to which Soane was appointed Deputy Surveyor in 1795. The work was on behalf of the Duke of Clarence, later William IV, who lived at Bagshot Park until 1816.
A similar combination of flint and brick was employed by Soane in his Cumberland Gate to Hyde Park (also for the Office of Woods and Forests and, like Bagshot, demolished) as well as in the surviving entrance to Pitzhanger Manor, Ealing his own country home and the (demolished) dairy at Betchworth Castle, Surrey. This use of colour and texture in these outbuildings and entrance lodges created a picturesque effect, anchoring them firmly in the English landscape by the use of natural, local materials.
Associated items
SM P134, duplicate entry_scheme catalogue
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