drayton hall and the first generation of the palladian...
TRANSCRIPT
Drayton Hall and the First Generation of
the Palladian Legacy in America
Carter C. Hudgins Ph.D.
Palladio 17th century Palladianism
Neo-Palladianism
Andrea di Pietro della Gondola
Andrea Palladio (1508-1580)
Conjectural Portrait
Ricci, Sebastiano (1659-1734)
I Quattro libri dell'architettura
Giacomo Leoni 1715, London
Palladio 17th century Palladianism
Neo-Palladianism
Details of the Corinthian and
Composite capitals, Baths of
Caracalla, Rome
Andrea Palladio (1508-1580)
RIBA Library Drawings
Collection
Palladio 17th century Palladianism
Neo-Palladianism
Design for a small villa: façade
Andrea Palladio (1508-1580), RIBA Library Drawings Collection
Palladio 17th century Palladianism
Neo-Palladianism
Villa Cornaro c. 1553-1554
Villa Cornaro
I Quattro Libri Dell'Architettura
Andrea Palladio 1570 , Venice
Palladio 17th century Palladianism
Neo-Palladianism
Villa Capra, “La Rotonda”
c. 1567-1571
Villa Pisani c.1553
Villa Foscari c.1558-1560 Villa Emo c.1565
Palladio 17th century Palladianism
Neo-Palladianism
Palazzo del Capitaniato
c.1571-1572Il Redentore c.1577-1592
Palladio 17th century Palladianism
Neo-Palladianism
Frontispiece
I Quattro Libri Dell'Architettura
Andrea Palladio 1570 , Venice
Palladio 17th century Palladianism
Neo-Palladianism
Villa Pisani from I Quattro Libri Dell'Architettura
Palladio17th century Palladianism
Neo-Palladianism
Inigo Jones (1573-1652)
Palladio17th century Palladianism
Neo-Palladianism
Palazzo Valmarana, Vicenza.
Andrea Palladio (1508-1580)
RIBA Library Drawings
Collection
Palladio17th century Palladianism
Neo-Palladianism
The Banqueting House at the Palace of Whitehall, London.
Inigo Jones, c.1619
Palladio17th century Palladianism
Neo-Palladianism
The Queen's House, Greenwich, south facade.
Inigo Jones, 1614-1617
Palladio17th century Palladianism
Neo-Palladianism
The Queen's House, Greenwich, north facade.
Inigo Jones, 1614-1617
Palladio17th century Palladianism
Neo-Palladianism
Preliminary design for the north front of the Queen's House, Greenwich.
Inigo Jones
RIBA Library Drawings Collection
Palladio17th century Palladianism
Neo-Palladianism
John Webb, Architect 1611-1672
John Oliver , London City Surveyor 1616-1701
William Talman , Architect 1650-1719
John Talman, Architect 1677-1726
Palladio17th century Palladianism
Neo-Palladianism
Richard Boyle, 3rd Lord Burlington
(1694-1753)Jonathan Richardson, 1717-1719
National Portrait Gallery, London
Palladio 17th century Palladianism
Neo-Palladianism
Chiswick House, 1725Burlington House, 1717
Palladio 17th century Palladianism
Neo-Palladianism
James Gibbs, 1682-1754 William Kent, 1685-1748
Vitruvius Britannicus, or
the British Architect.
3 Vols. 1715-1725
Stourhead House c. 1720
Colen Campbell, 1676-1729
The Designs of Inigo Jones,
1727
A Book of Architecture, 1728
Rules for Drawing the
Several Parts of Architecture,
1732
Palladio 17th century Palladianism
Neo-Palladianism
James Gibbs, 1682-1754William Kent, 1685-1748
Colen Campbell, 1676-1729
The Radcliffe Camera
Oxford, England
1720-54
Houghton Hall
1722
Badminton House
c. 1724
Palladio 17th century Palladianism
Neo-Palladianism
James Gibbs, 1682-1754 William Kent, 1685-1748Colen Campbell, 1676-1729
Mereworth Castle
1722-1723
Vitruvius Britannicus
1715-1725
The Designs of Inigo Jones
1727A Book of Architecture
1728
Palladio17th century Palladianism
Neo-Palladianism
American Palladianism
United States Capital, Washington D.C.
Begun 1793
Palladio17th century Palladianism
Neo-Palladianism
American Palladianism
Design for the President’s House,
James Hoban, 1793
Palladio17th century Palladianism
Neo-Palladianism
American Palladianism
Hammond House, Annapolis Maryland
William Buckland 1773-1774
Palladio17th century Palladianism
Neo-Palladianism
American Palladianism
Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)
by Gilbert Stuart, 1806
Monticello 1768-1808
Palladio17th century Palladianism
Neo-Palladianism
American Palladianism
The Rotunda, The University of Virginia 1822-1826
Palladianism17th century Palladianism
Neo-Palladianism
American Palladianism
A View of Charles Town
Thomas Leitch, 1773.
Courtesy of the Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts.
Drayton Family
Crest
c.1738
Palladianism17th century Palladianism
Neo-Palladianism
American Palladianism
An accurate map of the Island of
Barbadoes. Drawn from an actual
survey containing all the towns,
churches, fortifications, roads,
paths, plantations &c. By Eman.
Bowen. London, 1747.
Caribbean sugar works, French West Indies
Jean Baptiste DuTertre
Histoire Générale des Antilles Habitées par les Francois, 1667
A picturesque tour of the island of Jamaica
James Hakewill
London, 1825
Detail From A Map of South
Carolina
and a Part of Georgia
William DeBrahm
London, 1757
Indigo Stamp Bearing the Mark of
John Drayton
3 inches
18th Century Drayton
Landholdings in
South Carolina
145 Properties 76,000 Acres
Charleston
Peninsula
Map of South Carolina and Part of Georgia
William Gerard De Brahm 1757
South Carolina Gazette
December 22, 1758
A Possible Design for Drayton Hall
John Drayton’s Palace
Villa Cornaro
Piombino Dese
1553-1554
Drayton Hall First Floor
Ratio 1:2
Ratio 1:1
Ratio 3:5 Ratio 3:5
Ratio 1:1
Overall Ratio 4:3
Drayton Hall First Floor
North Flanker
Ratio 3:5 South Flanker
Ratio 3:5
Flow patterns
Molding details
Doric Pilasters
Great Hall
Ionic Pilasters
Withdrawing Room
Parterre
Entrance Avenue
Ratio 3:5
The Drayton Garden House
18th Century Study
of Service Stair
Modern Paint Analysis and
AutoCAD Documentation
John Drayton’s
Library…..
Batty Langley
The city and country builder's and workman's treasury of designs, 1740.
Batty Langley, The city and country builder's and workman's treasury of designs, 1740.
Johannes Kip
Burlington House from Britannia Illustrata, 1707.
William Kent
The Designs of Inigo Jones, 1727.
Drayton Hall
Room 101Mantel and Overmantel
William Kent
The Designs of Inigo Jones, 1727. Houghton Hall, Norfolk
The Stone Hall, Colin Campbell and James Gibbs.
James Gibbes
A Book of Architecture, 1728. Drayton Hall Room 105
John Drayton’s
Library…..
Hale Park, Hale,
Hampshire: elevation and
first floor plan for a villa
Designer Webb, John (1611-1672)
John Webb,
Hale Park, Hale, Hampshire: elevation
and first floor plan for a villa
RIBA Library Drawings Collection
John Webb,
The Vyne, Hampshire,1654
Withdrawing Room Ceiling
Drayton Hall
c. 1738
Withdrawing Room Ceiling
Drayton Hall
c. 1738
Greenwich Palace, quarter plan
design for a ceiling for the alcove
in the King's bedchamber featuring
foliate decoration.
John Webb, 1666
RIBA Library Drawings Collection
The Queen's House, Greenwich, north facade.
Inigo Jones, 1614-1617.
The Drayton Garden House
Drayton Hall, 1765
Pierre Eugene du Simitiere
Drayton Hall, 1845
Lewis Reeves Gibbes
Drayton Papers Collection
Low line of bricks
topped with
iron railing
2009-2010
Excavations
2009-2010
Excavations
North Flanker
Colonnade Wall
Foundation Trench
Drayton Hall, 1765
Pierre Eugene du Simitiere
The Cascade of Water of a river Called Bog which divides the Estate of W Gordon & one
Butterfield in the parish of St. Amen Jamaica 3 miles from ocho rios on Sherras Bay.
Drawn by me on the spot in the month of 8 nov 1761 for Charles Price Esq & afterwards part
from my Sketches of it my manuscript description & the help of my memory, I have made this
design of it at Burlington in New Jersey No America august 1766 PED of Geneva.
Original Design
for the
Great Seal of
the United States
George Washington William Henry Drayton
Si quebro el cantaro
Francisco Jose de Goya y Lucientes, 1799
Chinese Export
Porcelain
Chinese Imari
c. 1720-1740
Set of Four Tea Bowls
Yongzheng Period
c. 1722-50
Pyramid of Salvers with
Sweetmeat Glasses and Vases
c. 1720-1770
Winterthur Collection
Sterling Silver Cruet Set
Hallmarks for London, 1726
Thomas Bamford I
Sterling Silver Cruet Top
Drayton Hall Archaeological Collection
Dutch/English “Delft”
Hearth Tiles
George Edwards1694-1773
English Naturalist
Father of British Ornithology
Member of the Royal Society
Colleague of Mark Catesby
PublishedHistory of Birds
(1743-1751)
Gleaning of Natural History
(1758, 1760, 1764)
The Black Parrot from Madagascar
Engraving by Edwards
African Parrot
Watercolor by Edwards
◄►
Elevation of Lord Burlington’s
Chiswick VillaRIBA Library Drawings Collection
Richard Boyle, 3rd Earl of Burlington
and 4th Earl of Cork Courtesy
Jonathan Richardson c.1717-1719
National Portrait Gallery, London
“It is doubtful that John Drayton had a coherent philosophic
architectural whole in mind when it came to the designing and building
of Drayton Hall.”
“For though it can be argued that John Drayton was a gentleman, it
cannot be argued that Drayton was an educated gentleman.”
Andrea Palladio (1508-1580)
Details of the Corinthian and Composite capitals, Baths of Caracalla, Rome.
RIBA Library Drawings Collection.
Palladio drawings
Andrea Palladio (1508-1580)
Design for a small villa: facade
RIBA Library Drawings Collection