John Hutchins

Manor House, Cranbourne, the Property of the Marquis of Salisbury /// Dorset Art

1861-1870

Copper-line engraving by Pierre Foudrinier (1698-1758) after Sir William Chambers (1723-1796), 1794. Sir William Chambers (1723-1796) was a renown 18th century British architect. He traveled to China, France and Italy before establishing an architectural practice in London. He became Architect of the King's Works and worked for Augusta, Dowager Princess of Wales, making fanciful garden buildings...

Copper-line engraving by Pierre Foudrinier (1698-1758) after Sir William Chambers (1723-1796), 1794. Sir William Chambers (1723-1796) was a renown 18th century British architect. He traveled to China, France and Italy before establishing an architectural practice in London. He became Architect of the King's Works and worked for Augusta, Dowager Princess of Wales, making fanciful garden buildings...

'Coupang : Ile Timor. Divers Travaux Mécaniques' Steel-engraving by Friedrich Schroeder (1768-1839) after F Garnier after Alphonse Pellion. Alphonse Pellion, artist and naval draughtsman, was a midshipman aboard l'Uranie on Louis de Freycinet's three-year scientific and ethnographic expedition around the world in 1817-1820. From Louis Freycinet's 'Voyage Autour du Monde, Entrepris par Ordre du Roi ... Execue sur les Corvettes de S. M. l'Uranie et la Physicienne Pendant les Annees 1817, 1818, 1819 et 1820', published in Paris in 1825. Louis Claude de Saulces de Freycinet (1779-1842) joined the French Navy in 1793 and was a veteran of the Baudin's voyage of discovery (1801-1803). He also completed the narrative of the expedition which appeared under the title of 'Voyage de Decouvertes aux Terres Australes'. In 1817 de Freycinet successfully lobbied the Government and King Louis XVIII agreed to support a new global campaign. Its mission was to finally determine the shape of the earth and return with detailed reports on geography, people, government, commerce and art of this new world. The 350-ton corvette Uranie had a complement of 120 men and 23 officers including the artist Jacques Arago and a priest. Over the next three years Uranie visited Australia, East Timor...

'Michel Grove, Seat of Thomas Walker Esq'. Michel Grove was a house in Sussex which Humphrey Repton was commissioned to landscape. Published by Rudo...

'St Margarets (Entrance Front) Seat of the Earl of Cassillis'. St Margarets was a Regency house in Isleworth, Middlesex. Published by Rudolf Ackermann ...

'Rockbear House, Seat of Thos Porter Esq'. Rockbear House was originally built c. 1760-70 and owned by Sir John Duntze, the wealthy Exeter woollen merchant and banker. About 1820 t...

'Killerton, Seat of Sir Thos. Dyke Ackland Bt MP'. Killerton is an 18th-century house in Broadclyst, Exeter, Devon. It was built for the Acland family in 1778. The garden was creat...

'Coupang : Ile Timor. Vue d'un chantier de construction' Depicts Timorese people and Europeans building a rowboat under a tree, with other boats in the distance. The work is being overseen by a senior naval man, possibly intended to be Captain Freycinet. Steel-engraving by Friedrich Schroeder (1768-1839) after F Garnier after Alphonse Pellion. Alphonse Pellion, artist and naval draughtsman, was a midshipman aboard l'Uranie on Louis de Freycinet's three-year scientific and ethnographic expedition around the world in 1817-1820. From Louis Freycinet's 'Voyage Autour du Monde, Entrepris par Ordre du Roi ... Execue sur les Corvettes de S. M. l'Uranie et la Physicienne Pendant les Annees 1817, 1818, 1819 et 1820', published in Paris in 1825. Louis Claude de Saulces de Freycinet (1779-1842) joined the French Navy in 1793 and was a veteran of the Baudin's voyage of discovery (1801-1803). He also completed the narrative of the expedition which appeared under the title of 'Voyage de Decouvertes aux Terres Australes'. In 1817 de Freycinet successfully lobbied the Government and King Louis XVIII agreed to support a new global campaign. Its mission was to finally determine the shape of the earth and return with detailed reports on geography, people, government, commerce and art of this new world. The 350-ton corvette Uranie had a complement of 120 men and 23 officers including the artist Jacques Arago and a priest. Over the next three years Uranie visited Australia, East Timor...

'River Stour, Suffolk' Mezzotint on steel by David Lucas (1802-1881) after John Constable (1776–1836). From 'English Landscape Scenery', 1855. John Constable RA was an English Romantic landscape...

'Jacques and the Wounded Stag, Scene from 'As you like it'' Mezzotint on steel by David Lucas (1802-1881) after John Constable (1776–1836). From 'English Landscape Scenery', 1855. ...