[Views of Sezincote House and grounds, the Seat of Sir Charles Cockerell]
Series: Dumbarton Oaks Digitization Project
Publisher: [s.n.]
Published: 1818
Place of publication: England
Language: eng
Number of pages: 10
Subjects: Buildings, structures; Mogul Empire Architecture; Country homes; Sezincote House (Gloucestershire, England)
Other titles: Views of Sezincote House; Views of Sezincot; John Martin Views of Sezincote House
Notes: Title taken from RLG record: QMCA87-B20653 and from former owner of the Morgan Museum & Library copy, Gordon Norton Ray; publication date from Marlborough Rare Books Ltd. datasheet, page 46, and from Gordon Norton Ray.

""In 1817 Sir Charles Cockerell ... employed [John] Martin to depict Sezincote House in the Cotswolds. This still-surviving mansion in the ancient Indian style had just been completed by his architect brother Samuel Pepys Cockerell, working from drawings by Thomas Daniell." Sezincote, the only Indian house ever built in England or Europe, was a fitting subject for the artist John Martin. This paticular work is believed to represent his first private commission, and some of the details and features of the Sezincote series can be seen clearly reflected in his later, famous works depicting Babylon, Ninevah, and Milton's "Paradise Lost". The gardens, for much of which Daniell himself was responsible, were a realisation of idyllic landscape almost entirely novel in England at the time, and are also captured here by Martin."--Marlborough Rare Books Ltd. datasheet.

Consists of 10 hand colored aquatints, printed in sepia.

Aquatint views printed in sepia; etched by John Martin and aquatinted in sepia by F.C. Lewis.

"Drawn & etched by J. Martin, engraved by F.C. Lewis"; lettered below image.

Sir Charles Cockerell employed John Martin to create the portfolio of views of Sezincote House in 1817; the plates were subsequently issued privately in a limited number of sets. Cf. Ray.

Verso of each print is blank.

No restrictions on access copy. Unrestricted online access

Ray, Gordon N. Illustrator and the book in England, 68 (The Morgan Library & Museum copy)

Gloucestershire notes and queries, January 1885, pages 461-462, 1378

Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212