A View East from Edward Hussey Delaval's House in London
figures by George Francis Joseph, George Arnald, 1813
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figures by George Francis Joseph, George Arnald, A View East from Edward Hussey Delaval's House in London
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Details
- Country House
- Doddington Hall
- Title(s)
- A View East from Edward Hussey Delaval's House in London
- Date
- 1813
- Location
- Stairs Leading To Second Floor And Landing
- Medium and support
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- Overall height: 70 cm, Overall width: 90 cm
- Artists
- figures by George Francis Joseph (1764-1846), George Arnald (1763-1841)
- Catalogue Number
- DN78
Bibliography
R.E.G. Cole, History of Doddington, otherwise Doddington-Pigot, in the County of Lincoln, and its successive owners, with pedigrees, Lincoln : James Williamson, 1897, p. 219
Footnotes
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John Thomas Smith, A Book for a Rainy Day: or recollections of the events of the last sixty-six years, London: Richard Bentley, 1845, p. 161 note.
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Description
This is one of two views taken from an upper storey of Edward Hussey Delaval’s Thameside house, Parliament Place, Westminster. The house, which Delaval endeavoured to fire-proof with stone or composition floors and cast iron window sashes, reflected his taste for the Gothic, through embellishment with decorations cast from Gothic buildings, including nearby Westminster Abbey. John Thomas Smith, who recorded a visit to Delaval’s house in 1801 with fellow antiquarian John Carter, recalled that Delaval
Both pictures were exhibited by Arnald at the Royal Academy in 1813. The present work was entitled View of London from the Top of a Gentleman’s House on the Side of the Thames (396).
Edward Delaval is seated in the left foreground, with a view east towards Westminster Bridge and St Paul’s Cathedral. In 1772 St Paul’s had been struck by lightning, causing Delaval to write a scientific paper for the Royal Society on the subject of the viability of different types of lightning conductors. Delaval, who towards the end of his life divided his time between Doddingon and London, died on 14 August 1814 and was buried in Westminster Abbey. George Frederick Joseph, who painted the figure in the present picture, painted a number of portraits for Edward Delaval, including his own portrait and that of his wife (DN77 and DN90). Exhibited: Royal Academy 1813 (396).