Yale Center for British Art

Creator:: William Kent, ca.1686–1748, British
Title:: Design for a Pavilion in a Deer Park
Date:: ca. 1735
Materials & Techniques:: Brown wash, graphite, and pen and brown ink on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 5/8 × 11 5/8 inches (16.8 × 29.5 cm)
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:: Public Domain
Accession Number:: B1975.2.617
Classification:: Drawing & Watercolors-Architectural
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Subject Terms:: garden structures | landscape | pavilions (garden structures) | hills | meadows | landscape architecture | architectural subject | grazing
Currently On View:: Not on view
Exhibition History:: Country Houses in Great Britain - Yale Center for British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 1979-10-10 - 1980-01-29)
Publications:: Country houses in Great Britain., Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 1979, p. 70, no. 53, N6764 Y34 1979 (YCBA)
John Wilmerding, Essays in honor of Paul Mellon, collector and benefactor : Essays, , National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC & Hanover, NH, 1986, p. 151, fig. 16, N7442.2 M455 1986 (YCBA)
Gallery Label:: This is one of a pair of drawings for pavilions within a park (B1975.2.38). The perspective shows a building with a pyramidal roof between hipped end bays and behind an advanced porticoed center. The pavilion sits on the top of a hill, overlooking a landscape with clumps of trees and livestock. The drawing is probably one of William Kent's fanciful sketches, not intended for use as a design proposal. The groupings of animals and the loose handling in the trees are recognizably Kent’s work. Gallery label for installation of YCBA collection, 2014
Link:: https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:10880