Drayton Hall and the First Generation of the Palladian ...nationalbuildingmuseum.net/pdf/PubProg_Drayton_Hudgins_12-1-10.pdfDrayton Hall and the First Generation of the Palladian Legacy

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

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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