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Although run down and divided into three dwellings Brompton Park House was still standing on the south-west corner of the site. Part of the building seems to have existed by 1681. The west extension, seen in this watercolour, dates from the early eighteenth century: it is characterised by a Baroque-flavoured giant arch on two of its elevations. By 1857 Francis Fowke, a captain in the Royal Engineers, had supervised the building’s renovation and it had been adapted to provide temporary initial accommodation for the art school. The wooden huts seen in the foreground were also used by the art school: they were moved here from Marlborough House, where the art school had been based since 1853. Brompton Park House also soon accommodated the sappers from the Royal Engineers who were employed in clearing the site and constructing the Museum. Bordering Exhibition Road, the south edge of the Museum plot was the last to be filled with purpose-built permanent buildings. Brompton Park House appears to have survived until 1899, the year in which Aston Webb’s plans for completing the Museum began to be carried out. This watercolour is by the artist Anthony Carey Stannus, who painted many views of the Museum during its early years.","physicalDescription":"Watercolour on paper, comprising a view of the west elevation of Brompton Park House (inherited by the Victoria and Albert Museum with the South Kensington site; now demolished) and adjacent wooden huts. Forming a gable end, the central part of the brick west elevation of Brompton Park House is dominated by a large round-headed arch. The arch is divided by a brick pier: the right-hand half contains a second round-headed arch, into the lower part of which is inserted a rectangular window; the left-hand half contains a window with a segmental head. In front of the elevation is a yard with cold frames and stacked flower pots, enclosed on the left by huts with horizontal wood cladding, and on the right by low structures including a wood store. A cat is crouched in the foreground; large trees are visible behind the house.","artistMakerPerson":[{"name":{"text":"Stannus, Anthony Carey","id":"A7531"},"association":{"text":"artist","id":"AAT25103"},"note":""}],"artistMakerOrganisations":[],"artistMakerPeople":[],"materials":[{"text":"watercolour","id":"x33202"},{"text":"paper","id":"x30308"}],"techniques":[{"text":"watercolour painting","id":"THES250889"}],"materialsAndTechniques":"Watercolour on paper","categories":[{"text":"History of the V&A","id":"THES252692"},{"text":"Paintings","id":"THES48917"}],"styles":[],"collectionCode":{"text":"PDP","id":"THES48595"},"images":["2015HJ6558","2017JU0929"],"imageResolution":"high","galleryLocations":[{"current":{"text":"LVLH","id":"THES49654"},"free":"","case":"PD","shelf":"160","box":"D"}],"partTypes":[[{"text":"drawing","id":""}]],"contentWarnings":[{"apprise":"","note":""}],"placesOfOrigin":[{"place":{"text":"England","id":"x28826"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":""}],"productionDates":[{"date":{"text":"1863","earliest":"1863-01-01","latest":"1863-12-31"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":""}],"associatedObjects":[],"creditLine":"","dimensions":[{"dimension":"Height","value":"25.7","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":""},{"dimension":"Width","value":"35.8","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":""}],"dimensionsNote":"","marksAndInscriptions":[],"objectHistory":"","historicalContext":"","briefDescription":"View of Victoria and Albert Museum by Anthony Carey Stannus, Brompton Park House and wooden huts from the west, 1863","bibliographicReferences":[{"reference":{"text":"Physick, John. <u>The Victoria and Albert Museum: The History of Its Building</u>. London: The Victoria & Albert Museum, 1982.","id":"AUTH322581"},"details":"pp. 26-29","free":""},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"F. H. W. Sheppard, ed. <u>Survey of London Volume XXXVIII: The Museums Area of South Kensington and Westminster</u>. London: The Athlone Press, 1975."}],"production":"","productionType":{"text":"","id":""},"contentDescription":"","contentPlaces":[{"text":"Victoria and Albert Museum","id":"x32782"}],"associatedPlaces":[],"contentPerson":[],"associatedPerson":[],"contentOrganisations":[],"associatedOrganisations":[],"contentPeople":[],"associatedPeople":[],"contentEvents":[],"associatedEvents":[],"contentOthers":[],"contentConcepts":[],"contentLiteraryRefs":[],"galleryLabels":[],"partNumbers":["2818"],"accessionNumberNum":"2818","accessionNumberPrefix":"","accessionYear":null,"otherNumbers":[],"copyNumber":"","aspects":["WHOLE"],"assets":[],"recordModificationDate":"2025-04-23","recordCreationDate":"2009-06-30","availableToBook":false}}