P. TOMS (FL. MID-18th CENTURY) , P. TOMS (FL. MID-18th CENTURY)

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The great formal garden's at Chirk were laid out by Sir Thomas Myddelton II after the Restoration. He remarked:- , 'When first, I did begin, to make This Garden, I did undertake, A worke, I knew not when begunn, What it would Cost, ere it was donn, But I repent not, for ye poore, Doe there finde worke; had none before. , I found some worke for every trade, Some walles did make, some Arbours made, Some mowed ye allys; some I putt, To preuine ye vines, and Hedges cutt, And some poore weomen, that had neede I kept, & payd them, for to weede.'

P. TOMS (FL. MID-18th CENTURY)

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P. TOMS (FL. MID-18th CENTURY)
The North West propect of Chirk Castle in Denbighshire Signed and dated 'P. Toms de. 1740' and inscribed as title of mount Pen, ink and wash
4¼ x 8 in. (10.1 x 20.1 cm.)

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Lot Essay

This is probably Peter Toms (fl. until 1776). A pupil of Hudson while Joshua Reynolds was in his studio, he worked for many important artists of the succeeding generation, including Francis Cotes and Johan Zoffany.

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