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The original Chiswick House was a Jacobean house owned by Sir Edward Wardour, and possibly built by his father. [3] It is dated c. 1610 in a late 17th-century engraving of the Chiswick House estate by Jan Kip and Leonard Knyff, [4] and was constructed with four sides around an open courtyard. [4]
The Deer House with its Egyptianesque Vitruvian door surrounds. The gardens at Chiswick were filled with fabriques (decorative garden buildings) which illustrated Lord Burlington's knowledge of Roman, Greek, Egyptian and Renaissance architecture, and statues and architecture which expressed his Whig (and very possibly Jacobite) ideals.
Chiswick House is an example of English Palladian Architecture in Burlington Lane, Chiswick, in the London Borough of Hounslow in England. Arguably the finest remaining example of Neo-Palladian architecture in London, the house was designed by Lord Burlington, and built between 1727 and 1729. [1]
Chiswick (/ ˈ tʃ ɪ z ɪ k / ⓘ CHIZ-ik) [3] is a district in West London, split between the London Boroughs of Hounslow and Ealing.It contains Hogarth's House, the former residence of the 18th-century English artist William Hogarth, Chiswick House, a neo-Palladian villa regarded as one of the finest in England and Fuller's Brewery, London's largest and oldest brewery.
Map of Sutton Court and Chiswick House by Peter Potter, 1818. Chiswick House is on the right in its landscaped grounds (dark green); the "river" (blue) is the remodelled Bollo Brook, and Fauconberg's "The Park" (white), acquired by Burlington for Chiswick House below it. Sutton Court is left centre, the old moated house enclosure to its north ...
Two Statues flanking Chiswick House Chiswick House Gardens: Statue: c. 1730: 21 May 1973: 1079612: Two Statues flanking Chiswick House: Syon House: Isleworth, Hounslow: Country house: 1430–70: 15 June 1951
Rocque's plan of Chiswick House and gardens, 1736. John Rocque (originally Jean; c. 1704 –1762) was a French-born British surveyor and cartographer, best known for his detailed map of London published in 1746.
Chiswick House grounds 51°29′04.2″N 0°15′35.6″W / 51.484500°N 0.259889°W / 51.484500; -0.259889 ( Group of statues and ornaments Sculpture