View from the foot of the Pyramid at Stowe, Buckinghamshire

Inscription: In pen and brown ink at lower left center: "View from the foot of the Pyramid." At lower right center in pen and brown ink: "Veüe prise a coté de la Piramide." Inscribed in pen and black ink on the pyramid: "ME/ MORIAE SACRAM ESSE VOLUIT COBHAM"

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

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.

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, p. 182.

Peter Willis "Jacques Rigaud's Drawings of Stowe in the Metropolitan Museum of Art." in Eighteenth-Century Studies. Baltimore, 1972, fig. 6, ill.

Peter Willis Charles Bridgeman and the English Landscape Garden. A. Zwemmer, 1977, fig. 136, ill.

Barbara Toll Follies: Fantasy in the Landscape. Ex. cat. Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, 2001, cat. no. 17.

Peter Willis Charles Bridgeman and the English Landscape Garden. 2002, plate 136.