Pierrepont House, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire

unknown artist

ca. 1705

Oil on canvas

Yale Center for British Art

A formal garden with a large brick building and a tall tower is depicted with several figures and a dog. Terraced levels with ornate balustrades and urns lead up to the main structure. A formal garden with a large brick building and a tall tower is depicted with several figures and a dog. Terraced levels with ornate balustrades and urns lead up to the main structure. Pierrepont House, the country seat of the Earls of Kingston, was celebrated for its ornate, enclosed Dutch-style garden. As Sir Roy Strong has noted, this painting provides us with "a rare record of the delights of a late seventeenth-century town garden," and he has described the "ground-plan... [as]...quartered, and each quarter is laid out in identical patterns. Set into grass, which was enormously labor-intensive to maintain, all the beds are edged