A View of Lawn from the Palace, with the Pagoda, the Temple of Victory, and the Colonade in the Royal Gardens at Kew. Vue du Gazon prise ou Palais, avec la Pagoda, le Temple de la Victoire, et la Colounade dans le Jardin Royal de Kew

Location

Country: Other
City: missing

William Woollett was the son of an innkeeper, from Maidstone, Kent. In 1750 he was apprenticed to John Tinney at the Goldsmith’s Company. By 1759, he was studying at St Martin’s Lane Academy. Three years later he married Hannah but, after their five children died in infancy, Hannah also died in 1770. Woollett was later remarried to Elizabeth. His earliest prints are of country houses and gardens, after his own designs. He was first employed by John Boydell in 1760. His engraving after Richard Wilson’s ‘The Destruction of the Children of Niobe’ won him considerable critical acclaim and, as a result, Alan Ramsay invited him to engrave his portrait of George III. Woollett reportedly died ‘from the effect of an accident, unskilfully treated’.

Places

Subjects

Materials & Techniques

engraving, coloured engraving

Artist

William Woollett (1735 - 1785)
J S Mason

Title

A View of Lawn from the Palace, with the Pagoda, the Temple of Victory, and the Colonade in the Royal Gardens at Kew. Vue du Gazon prise ou Palais, avec la Pagoda, le Temple de la Victoire, et la Colounade dans le Jardin Royal de Kew

Date

c.1760-c.1770

Medium

Coloured engraving

Acquisition

Purchased from Frank T Sabin, June 1971

GAC number

9279