Old Master & British Works on Paper
Old Master & British Works on Paper
Property from the Collection of the late Cyril and Shirley Fry
English School, circa 1670
Boningtons, Hertfordshire
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Description
Property from the Collection of the late Cyril and Shirley Fry
English School, circa 1670
Boningtons, Hertfordshire
Pen and brown ink
292 by 463 mm
Country Life, April 1968, p. 973;
J. Harris, The Artist and the Country House, London 1979, p. 82, fig. 81
J. Harris, The Artist and the Country House, London 1979, p. 82, fig. 81
This is a rare drawing of a country house from the 17th century. It shows Boningtons, which stands two miles north-east of Stanstead Abbots, amongst fields, orchards and vegetable plots. The coat of arms of the owner are those of Ralph Byde, a lawyer and brother of Sir Thomas Byde of Ware Park in the same county.
John Harris, the author of The Artist and the Country House, compared the work to a view of Lullingston Castle, Kent, a pen and ink drawing which he dated to the same period.1 For a time the present drawing held an attribution to Thomas Badslade (fl. 1719-1750).
1. J. Harris, op. cit., p. 82, fig. 82
John Harris, the author of The Artist and the Country House, compared the work to a view of Lullingston Castle, Kent, a pen and ink drawing which he dated to the same period.1 For a time the present drawing held an attribution to Thomas Badslade (fl. 1719-1750).
1. J. Harris, op. cit., p. 82, fig. 82