- Title:
Bush Hill, Edmonton, London: Plan of a Knot Garden
- Additional Title(s):
Design for a Knot Garden at Bush Hill, Edmonton, London
- Date:
- 1713
- Medium:
- Graphite, pen and brown ink, and watercolor on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 9 7/8 x 5 1/2 inches (25.1 x 14 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Watermark, center: DC [?]
Inscribed in pen and brown ink, throughout, garden labeled with letters "a", "b", "c", "d", "e", "f" corresponding to key in pen and brown ink, lower left: "a Sand | b Cole ashes | c Ye Earth or | Border | d Gravell | e Coal ashes | f Ye Long Bo | r | [de]r; on verso in pen and brown ink, upper center: "Draught of a Knot for | the Lower Quarter of | the Long Garden at | Bush-hill Drawn by | Mr Clarkes Gardiner 1713"
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1975.2.362
- Classification:
- Drawing & Watercolors-Architectural
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- architectural subject | knot garden | landscape architecture | plan (formal concept)
- Associated Places:
- Edmonton | England | Europe | London | United Kingdom
- Access:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
Note: The Study Room is open by appointment. Please visit the Study Room page on our website for more details. - Link:
- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:7991
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