Henry Venn Lansdown (1806-1860)

Nassau House, Orange Grove (Prince of Orange House) (illustrated); Queen's Square Chapel, Bath; and Mr Ralph Allen's House in Lilliput Alley from the Garden, designed by architect J. Wood, 1727

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Henry Venn Lansdown (1806-1860)
Nassau House, Orange Grove (Prince of Orange House) (illustrated); Queen's Square Chapel, Bath; and Mr Ralph Allen's House in Lilliput Alley from the Garden, designed by architect J. Wood, 1727
all numbered (upper right); the third signed 'Lansdown del^t' (lower right)
pencil, pen and grey ink and grey wash heightened with white, on paper
10 7/8 x 14 in. (27.7 x 35.5 cm.); and smaller (3)

Literature

The third, John Francis Meehan, Famous Houses of Bath, ill.p. 32

Lot Essay

Henry Venn Lansdown produced many views of Bath during his lifetime, sometimes repainting the same view several times. The townhouse of Ralph Allen, a postal entrepreneur who settled in Bath, later at Prior Park, was a popular subject for Lansdown's work. The architect J. Wood added the new Palladian front to the house before beginning work on Prior Park in the mid-1730s.

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