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Supporting museums Art we've helped buy General Plan and Perspectives of the Gardens at Stowe

General Plan and Perspectives of the Gardens at Stowe

Jaques Rigaud

Art Funded
1991
Art Fund grant
£1,500 (Total: £6,050)
Vendor
Sotheby's
Fifteen plates (including two double) bound with plan (double plate), published at 1739 by Sarah Bridgeman.

By Jacques Rigaud & Bernard Baron.

Etching & engraving on paper

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Art we’ve helped buy at Buckinghamshire County Museum

Lenborough Hoard Of Anglo Saxon Silver Coins
 Acquired 2016
Whiteleaf Cross
 Acquired 2007
White bird, Wells Cathedral
 Acquired 1997
View of Hartwell House
 Acquired 1955
View of Hartwell House
 Acquired 1955
Vessel
 Acquired 1997
Two vessels
 Acquired 1997
Two studies of Windmills
 Acquired 1965
Two bowls
 Acquired 1997
Topiary Exhedra with Pond and Obelisk beyond and end of Canal
 Acquired 1955
Topiary Arcades and Shutters to the George II Column with part of House and Gibbs' portico building
 Acquired 1955
Three vessels
 Acquired 1997
The Wilderness Behind the Topiary Allees
 Acquired 1955
The Valley Farm
 Acquired 2014
The South Front of Stowe House, Buckinghamshire
 Acquired 2006
The Octagon Pond with Aylesbury Town and church in the distance
 Acquired 1955
The Long Canal with Gibbs' Temple and the House
 Acquired 1955
The Jury
 Acquired 2005
The Gardeners scything in the North-West Woodlands
 Acquired 1955
The Fallen Tree & Slough Pools
 Acquired 1996
The Darell-Tucker-Dayrell cup
 Acquired 1997
The Bridge and Chapel at Hartwell & The Bridge at Hartwell
 Acquired 2005
The Bowling Green and Octagon Pond
 Acquired 1955
The Beauties of Stowe: Bacchantes dancing and lounging by the Temple of Ancient Virtue
 Acquired 2009
The Allees and Arcades Behind the House
 Acquired 1955
Tea set
 Acquired 1997
Six bowls
 Acquired 1997
Pigotts, Buckinghamshire
 Acquired 1993
One painting, four drawings and fourteen engravings
 Acquired 1993
Mona or The Moon
 Acquired 1992
Lobster pots
 Acquired 1997
Little Horwood Hoard
 Acquired 2008
Late Bronze Age Gold Bracelet
 Acquired 1994
Jug
 Acquired 1997
High Wycombe, Bucks
 Acquired 1992
Gothic window
 Acquired 1997
Gold Staters
 Acquired 1998
General Plan and Perspectives of the Gardens at Stowe
 Acquired 1991
Dish
 Acquired 1997
Cup
 Acquired 1997
Crossing the Ford
 Acquired 2007
Clematis and trellis
 Acquired 1997
Brill, Wotton and Ludgershall
 Acquired 1990
Bowl
 Acquired 1997
Blossom at night
 Acquired 1997

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1 . General Plan and Perspectives of the Gardens at Stowe

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