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45 Seeley Guide Books, Beauties and Gardens of Stowe
Details
- Date
- 1744-1838
- Author / Artist
- Benton Seeley
- Dimensions
- 13cm by 21cm
- Material
- Paper, Leather
- Catalogue number
- SS.48.1-45
- Current location
- Museum
A description of the House and Gardens of The Most Noble & puissant prince, George Grenville Nugent-Temple, Marquess of Buckingham. A collection of guide books, engraved plates, 1744 onwards to 1838; a collection of forty-five, with folding plates, variously bound.
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James Gibbs at Stowe
Details
- Date
- 2021
- Author / Artist
- William Aslet
- Dimensions
- 6 pages
- Material
- Catalogue number
- Article.01
- Current location
- SHPT files
- Download
- James Gibbs at Stowe
William Aslet, recipient of the George Clarke Prize for research pertinent to Stowe, re-evaluates the contribution of James Gibbs to the landscape of one of Britain’s finest country houses.
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The Garter Room at Stowe House
Details
- Date
- 1991
- Author / Artist
- Michael Bevington
- Dimensions
- 19 pages
- Material
- Catalogue number
- Article.02
- Current location
- SHPT files
- Download
- The Garter Room at Stowe House
Article from The Georgian Group Journal Volume XV, covering the development, the source of the design of the State Apartment at Stowe House. Includes description and images of the Palmyrene ceilings. William Aslet, recipient of the George Clarke Prize for research pertinent to Stowe, re-evaluates the contribution of James Gibbs to the landscape of one of Britain’s finest country houses.
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The Marquess of Buckingham and the Presence Chamber at Dublin Castle, 1788–1838
Details
- Date
- 2019
- Author / Artist
- Myles Campbell
- Dimensions
- 24 pages
- Material
- Catalogue number
- Article.03
- Current location
- SHPT files
- Download
- The Marquess of Buckingham and the Presence Chamber at Dublin Castle, 1788–1838
Article from a George Clarke prize recipient describing the Marquess of Buckinghams’ association and development of the Presence Chamber at Dublin Castle.
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The History of Stowe – Ancient & Medieval Stowe
Details
- Date
- 1967
- Author / Artist
- George Clarke
- Dimensions
- 4 pages
- Material
- Catalogue number
- Article.04
- Current location
- SHPT files
- Download
- The History of Stowe – Ancient & Medieval Stowe
Article from The Stoic – March 1967. Contextualises Stowe within the archaeology of the landscape and area.
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Plaster Copies of 8 Marble Statues
Details
- Date
- Author / Artist
- Dimensions
- Material
- Plaster
- Catalogue number
- HBT.67
- Current location
- Marble Saloon
Plaster copies of marble statues for the Marble Saloon: Meleager (6ft 10in); Augustus (6ft 7ins); Roman Consul (6ft 8in); Capitoline Venus (6ft 4ins); Apollo (7ft); Antinous (6ft 8ins); Urania, Muse of Astrology (7ft 1in); Hygeia (7ft ). From Gipsformerei at Berlin. (MB re HB15MH01-8)
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Set of 4 Portland Stone Tondos with Carvings of The Four Seasons
Details
- Date
- Contemporary
- Author / Artist
- Dimensions
- 2.5m
- Material
- Portland stone compound
- Catalogue number
- SHPT.10.1-4
- Current location
- South Front Portico
A set of four contemporary Portland Colossal Maidens. Minerva, with Britanica and the Three Fates, Clotho, Lachesis and Atropos.
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Marble Bust of Apollo Belvedere
Details
- Date
- 1700s
- Author / Artist
- Dimensions
- Material
- Marble
- Catalogue number
- SS.7
- Current location
- West Corridor
A marble bust of Apollo Belvedere after the antique, 18th century, on socle.
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Pair of Torchères
Details
- Date
- Late-1700s
- Author / Artist
- After James 'Athenian' Stuart
- Dimensions
- 185cm high
- Material
- Wood
- Catalogue number
- SS.8.1-2
- Current location
- Museum
- Related
- Related history
Pair of gilt wood torcheres, after a design by James ‘Athenian’ Stuart, shallow bowls, with applied leafage and ribbon garlands, with bacchanalian masks over three supports, in the form of gryphons, on three leopard monopods, incurved triform base.These remarkable ‘atheniennes’ display an almost archaeological approach to furniture design; inspired by the tripod stand discovered in the Temple of Isis at Pompeii, which was displayed in the Museum of Antiquities at Portici, a well-trodden route for gentlemen on their Grand Tour. However, the adoption of the new Neo-Classical aesthetic may draw on sources rather closer to home.The ‘athenienne’ or torchère form was adopted by James ‘Athenian’ Stuart for the Painted Room at Spencer House, London, generally considered to be the first fully integrated Neo-Classical interior in England. Clearly inspired by Roman painted interiors such as those which Stuart himself saw on his visits to Pompeii and Herculaneum in 1748, classical references punctuate every aspect of the scheme: the chimneypiece was copied in part from the famous Aldobrandini wedding, the frieze was taken from the Erechtheion in Athens, the doorcases taken from the Incantada at Salonnika and the columnar screen from the Temple of Fortuna Virilia in Rome. It is easy to imagine that Richard Grenville, 2nd Earl Temple and his nephew and heir would have been familiar with Stuart’s scheme via their near neighbours the Spencer’s, furthermore a firm connection with Stuart is known, given that the Stowe South Portico features a version of the frieze from the Lysicates Monument in Athens, taken from Stuart & Revett’s The Antiquities of Athens, 1762. The original antique prototype for this model was found in the Isis temple is now in the Museo Archeologico, Naples. It was subsequently engraved by Gian Battista Piranesi in his Vasi, Candelabri, Cippe of 1778, pl. 44 – and interestingly Piranesi’s engraving clearly reiterates the scale and proportion of the Stowe atheniennes. Widely copied in bronze in the early 19th century, the design was popularised in a more compressed and reduced form in C. Percier and P. Fontaine’s Recueil de Décorations Intérieures of 1801, pl. 23 and 33. They were almost certainly the designers of a pair of tripod basin stands supplied around 1802/3 for the bedroom of the Emperor Napoleon and Empress Josephine at the Château de Saint-Cloud.
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Silver Gilt Urn
Details
- Date
- 1773
- Author / Artist
- Thomas Hemming
- Dimensions
- 39cm
- Material
- Silver gilt
- Catalogue number
- SS.9
- Current location
- Museum
A silver gilt urn, 1773, having a part fluted ovoid body with median band of Vitruvian scrolls, harebell loop handles, on a knopped laurel bordered pedestal with square plinth, the lid with reclining putto.
