Beaufort House, Chelsea
Medium
etching and engraving, hand colored
Dimensions
sheet: 54.3 × 64.8 cm · platemark: 35.9 × 49.4 cm
Classification
Department
Prints
Museum
Cleveland Museum of Art
Credit
Nancy F. and Joseph P. Keithley Collection Gift
Accession Number
2020.163
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About this artwork
This detailed view of Beaufort House in Chelsea portrays the gabled house, built in 1521, and its extensive formal gardens. Part of a large folio publication of the principal seats of the nobility in England, the Britannia Illustrata, it portrays a structure that was once the home of Sir Thomas More and that was demolished in 1740. The two Dutch artists who collaborated on this and the other topographical views in the volume, both resident in England, were exacting in their depictions of the arc...