Pen and black and brown ink, watercolor on moderately thick, smooth, cream vellum
Dimensions:
Sheet: 19 1/2 x 27 1/16 inches (49.5 x 68.7 cm)
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1975.2.485
Gallery Label:
Serving as George III’s landscape gardener in 1764, Lancelot “Capability” Brown proposed for St. James’s Park a curving lake with an island at its center. The design, shown here in plan, would replace the formal gardens and canal with a “naturalized” landscape. Although never executed, Brown’s design is echoed in John Nash’s alterations of 1828, still extant today. Gallery label for installation of YCBA collection, 2014