Temple for a Flower Garden
Medium
Etching
Dimensions
plate: 7 15/16 x 4 15/16 in. (20.2 x 12.5 cm) sheet: 9 7/16 x 6 7/8 in. (23.9 x 17.5 cm)
Classification
Prints|Ornament & Architecture
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011
Accession Number
2012.136.623
Tags
Art Historical Context
Nestled in the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Drawings and Prints collection, *Temple for a Flower Garden (1778) is an exquisite etching by the visionary British architect Sir John So, with engraving by J. Taylor. a compact plate size of 7 15/16 x 4 15/16 inches, this delicate print captures a fanciful neoclassical temple designed as an elegant folly for an English garden. Such structures were prized in the late 18th century for enhancing landscape gardens, blending classical antiquity with romantic natural settings—think of them as poetic pavilions amid blooming flowers. Created early in Soane...
About the Artist
Sir John Soane|J. Taylor (British|British) · 1753 |1700 –1837 |1850
British, Goring-on-Thames (?) 1753–1837 London|London