- Title:
The South Farm at Earlham
- Part Of:
Collective Title: Surveys of Edward Bacon's Seat at Earlham House
- Date:
- 1754
- Medium:
- Graphite, pen and brown ink, watercolor and gouache on smooth, moderately thick, white wove paper
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 14 11/16 × 23 3/4 inches (37.3 × 60.3 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in pen and brown ink, upper left: "The South Farm at Erlham containing 303A 1R 16P and 286A 3R 32P arable, OR profitable Land"; in pen and brown ink, upper left: "The dry Ditches are denoted by shades, The wet ones [lines]; The Paths thus [dots]; and was | Carefully performed by the Command of Edward Bacon Esq.r"; in pen and brown ink, throughout, plan labeled and numbers corresponding to key: "A Compendium of this Farm"; in pen and brown ink, upper left: "A Scale of Gunters Chains 22 Yards each"
Signed and dated in pen and brown ink, upper left: "in 1754 | By Ja.s Hemingway"
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1975.2.714
- Classification:
- Drawing & Watercolors-Architectural
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- architectural subject | house | surveys
- Access:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
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- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:48243
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Isaac Johnson, 1754–1835, British, The South Farm at Earlham, 1754
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