3/2010

Collection

Paintings, Prints and Drawings

Brief description

View of a garden in Bedford Park, watercolour on paper, in its original gilded oak frame, signed and dated F. Hamilton Jackson 1885, with two labels fixed to the backboard.

Title

View of a garden in Bedford Park
A garden in Chiswick, thought to be the garden of the artist, in full bloom

Object name (per part)

watercolour painting
frame
label
label

Object number

3/2010

Production person

Jackson, Frederick Hamilton (artist)

Production date

1885 (painted)

Period

Victorian (1837-1901)

Physical description

Watercolour on paper, in its original gilded oak frame with two labels fixed to the backboard.

Content description

The painting shows part of a garden, with a flower bed containing white, yellow and orange flowers, including several kinds of lilies, in the foreground. In the background, beyond a wooden fence which runs horizontally across the picture, there is a red brick house with a sloping tiled roof and prominent chimneys. Three white doves are perched on the roof.

Dimensions

Height: 70.5cm
Width: 55.5cm

Website keywords

images of gardens
Gardens
plants
ornamental plants
walls, fences and other boundaries

Label

Label text for the digital interactive located in the Reading Room (September 2015- June 2017):

View of a garden in Bedford Park, west London
By F. Hamilton Jackson
Watercolour on paper, dated 1885

Jackson’s watercolour captures artistic Victorian garden design. The curved boarders are filled with blooms in a variety of species and colours. This style of planting was more naturalistic than the formal flowerbeds which were typical of the more mainstream taste at this time.

This home is in Bedford Park, a garden suburb established in west London in the late nineteenth century. Perched on the edge of the city, these new homes were built in the Queen Anne cottage style and many were sold to writers, designers and artists. The poet W. B. Yeats spent part of his childhood in this suburb from 1876 to 1880 and described the area as a ‘romantic experiment’.