Garden buildings at Stowe, Buckinghamshire: views of 'The Castle' and the Wolfe Obelisk

RIBA Ref No RIBA38380

Architect/Designer	Gibbs, James (1682-1754)
	Vanbrugh, Sir John (1664-1726)
Artist/Photographer	Seeley, Benton (b. 1716)
Country	UK: England
City	Stowe
Subject Date	1700
Image Date	1769
View	Exterior
Style	Palladian
Medium	Print
Library Reference	EW E.G.766
Orientation	Portrait
Colour Info	Black and white
Credit	RIBA Collections
Subject	Obelisks ; Gardens ; Follies ; Country houses ; Garden buildings

SOURCE: Benton Seeley. Stowe: a description of the magnificent house and gardens (London, 1769) NOTES: Stowe Castle was built in parkland two miles east of the gardens in the 1730s, possibly to designs by James Gibbs. The Wolfe Obelisk was erected in memory of General James Wolfe who was killed while fighting the French in Canada in 1759.

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