A General Plan and Prospective of Lord Viscount Cobham's Gardens at Stowe

Inscription: On second flyleaf in black pen and ink: "Phillipps Ms. 137500" [referring to Sir Thomas Phillipps, 1st Baronet, 1792-1872]

Possibly Charles Bridgeman (British); Possibly Richard Temple 1st Viscount Cobham (British); Right Hon. Thomas Grenville (British); Sir Thomas Phillipps, 1st Baronet (British); Phillipps sale, Sotheby's, London, June 28, 1938, no. 448; Edwards (British); Vendor: F. & G. Staack

Harris, 1971, p. 182, pl. 131

"Vertue Note Books, Vol. III." The Volume of the Walpole Society. Vol. 22, 1933–34, p. 69 [Vertue's Note Book A.f; British Museum, Add. MS.23,076], V.67, B.M. 42b: notes made in 1733.

Sotheby's, London Bibliotheca Phillippica [works from the collection of Sir Thomas Phillipps, 1792-1872]. sale catalogue. June 28, 1938, lot 448: Stowe. Fourteen Fine Sepia Drawings–Views and Prospects of Viscount Cobham's Gardens at Stowe with a large plan of the Woods, Park and Garden...old red morocco, fine tooled with gilt floreated border...oblong folio.

"Vertue's Note Books, Vol. VI." The Volume of the Walpole Society. Vol. 30, 1951–52, p. 194 [Note Book A.y; V.45, B.M. 28], notes made in 1736.

John Harris "Some English Architectural and Decorative Drawings: In the Museum's Collection." The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin. 21, no. 6, (February 1963), pp. 214-216, 42.79(7) illustrated. fig. 2.

John Harris A Catalogue of British Drawings for Architecture, Decoration, Sculpture and Landscape Gardening 1550-1900 in American Collections. Upper Saddle River, New Jersey: The Gregg Press, 1971, pp. 182-183, pl. 131.

Peter Willis "Jacques Rigaud's Drawings of Stowe in the Metropolitan Museum of Art." in Eighteenth-Century Studies. Baltimore, 1972, pp. 85-98.

Peter Willis Charles Bridgeman and the English Landscape Garden. A. Zwemmer, 1977, fig. nos. 129-142.

Peter Willis Charles Bridgeman and the English Landscape Garden. 2002, plates 129-142.

Barry Taylor Thomas Grenville (1755-1846) and His Books. in Librairies within the Library: The Origins of the British Library's Printed Collections. British Library, London, 2009, pp. 324-29.

Louis-Antoine Prat Le Dessin Français au XVIIIe siècle. Paris, 2017, p. 305.