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Museo de Victoria y Alberto
Londres, Reino Unido
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- Comprobado
- hace 7 días
- En este estado desde
- 25 sept 2026
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- Los datos de colección del propio museo
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Drawing of the entrance front of Prior Park by Thomas Robins. Prior Park was built by Sir John Wood the Elder for Ralph Allen between 1733-50. Prior Park is a composition in the grand manner and it has been described as the most ambitious and complete recreation of Palladio's villas in England.
Thomas Robins is an enigmatic artist and, so far, little has been discovered of his life. He may be descended from the family of Robins who held the manor of Matson. He published a Prospect of Bath in 1757 and A View of the Baths and Pump Room in 1764. His son Thomas Robins the Younger was a drawing master.
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Between 1747 and 1770, Robins produced a series of drawings and paintings of English country houses and, in particular, their gardens. His surviving drawings and paintings epitomise English rococo taste. Robins was either specially attracted to rococo gardens, or had a reputation for the delineation of such gardens in the circles of cognoscenti of the rococo.
Robins and his work are of significant interest both topographically and aesthetically. His pictures of rococo gardens, with their vistas and ornamental buildings, are of great historical importance because they immortalise a fashion whose exemplars have disappeared. Robins, who was in many respects an 'amateur' painter, never succumbed to conventional facility and his views retain the charm and freshness of a personal discovery.
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- Número de inventario
- E.1308:39-2001
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- Museo de Victoria y Alberto: the museum's own open data · obtenido hace 7 días
- Imagen: Museo de Victoria y Alberto — © Victoria and Albert Museum, London
