Garden Designer Collection

A Rakes Progress - 2: The Levee, 1733. Artist: William Hogarth
A Rakes Progress - 2: The Levee, 1733. Tom holds a morning reception at his new palatial town lodgings. Vistors offer their services: a jockey, a dancing-master (with violin)

Jules Hardouin Mansart, 1704. Creator: Gerard Edelinck
Jules Hardouin Mansart, 1704

Victoria Sackville-West, Lady Sackville, 1913-1914. Creator: Auguste Rodin
Victoria Sackville-West, Lady Sackville, 1913-1914

Jacques Boyceau de la Barauderie, c. 1562-1633 / 1638, [obverse], 1624
Jacques Boyceau de la Barauderie, c. 1562-1633/1638, Intendant des Jardins under Louis XIII [obverse], 1624

A Rakes Progress, Plate 2, ca. 1800. Creator: Dent
A Rakes Progress, Plate 2, ca. 1800

Jean Charles Garnier d Isle (1697-1755), ca. 1750. Creator: Maurice-Quentin de La Tour
Jean Charles Garnier d Isle (1697-1755), ca. 1750

A Rakes Progress, 1735; plate II of VIII. Artist: William Hogarth
A Rakes Progress, 1735; plate II of VIII. Tom Rakewell is at his morning levee, attended by hangers on of various professions

Humphry Repton surveying with a theodolite, late 18th-early19th century. Repton (1752-1818) succeeded Capability Brown as the garden designer of choice for the landed gentry of England

Reverend William Mason, English poet, editor and gardener, (1815). Artist: R Page
Reverend William Mason, English poet, editor and gardener, (1815). Portrait of William Mason (1724-1797) wrote the historical tragedies Elfrida (1752) and Caractacus (1759)

A Rakes Progress, Plate 2, June 25, 1735. Creator: William Hogarth
A Rakes Progress, Plate 2, June 25, 1735

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