A View of Lady Diana Beauclerk's House in Twickenham Meadows, 1784
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After the death of her second husband Topham Beauclerk, Lady Diana Beauclerk lived in Spencer Grove, Twickenham, between 1781 and 1789. Horace Walpole described it as a ‘charming villa’, The house was also known as Little Marble Hill and as Marble Hill Cottage because of its location on the grounds of Marble Hill House, the home of Henrietta Howard, Countess of Suffolk.
According to early 19th-century accounts, Lady Diana ‘fitted up [the house] with great elegance’ and ‘decorated several of the rooms herself, with her own paintings and flowers’. The problem with murals was that they couldn't be moved. On quitting Little Marble Hill for a more retiring home in Petersham Lady Diana embarked on a new set of portable panels, now in the Lydiard House collection.
Spyers' view in the Kings Topographical Colletion is one of a series of four (or possibly six) prints depicting the houses of the nobility in Isleworth and Twickenham.
- Year:
- 1784
- Artist:
- John Wells and John Spyres
- Type:
- Etching
- Location:
- The British Library
- Owner:
- The British Library
- Reference:
- Maps.K.Top.30.19.i
- Copyright:
- The British Library
- Last updated on:
- Monday 22nd August 2022
