A View from the Summer House in Richmond Park up the River Thames / Vue prise du Pavillon dans le Parc de Richmond en remontant la Tamise
Jean Baptiste Claude Chatelain (c.1710 - c.1771)
Peter Paul Benazech (c.1730 - 1798)
Coloured engraving
published 1 October 1755-
About the work
- Location
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Country: UK
City: London
Place: Government Art Collection
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About the artist
Draughtsman, etcher and line engraver Jean Baptiste Claude Chatelain (real name Phillipe) was a Frenchman, born in London. He fought at Flanders before specialising in landscape and topographical views. He made prints after works by 17th-century painters as well as contemporary artists, and also after his own drawings. Chatelain worked in London for the engraver and printseller John Boydell (1720-1804), for whom he engraved works by Claude and Poussin, and also English views. He produced some 50 views in and around London. Chatelain’s unique style of engraving and etching has led to his plates being described as both ‘lazy’ and as demonstrating ‘masterly wildness’.
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Explore
- Places
- England, Richmond (Surrey), Surrey, River Thames
- Subjects
- topography, landscape C18th, river, park, house
- Materials & Techniques
- engraving, coloured engraving
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Details
- Title
- A View from the Summer House in Richmond Park up the River Thames / Vue prise du Pavillon dans le Parc de Richmond en remontant la Tamise
- Date
- published 1 October 1755
- Medium
- Coloured engraving
- Acquisition
- Purchased from Frank T Sabin, October 1961
- GAC number
- 5623