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The pictorial source for the decoration (on the lid of the dessert bowl) presenting a view of the church and stables complex at the Wimple Hall estate in Cambridgeshire has still not been identified. The variety of suggestions that have been put forward on this score is, however, undoubted evidence of the attractions that the landscape park on that estate held for contemporaries on account of the efforts of the celebrated Lancelot "Capability" Brown. Brown was employed in 1767 by the then-owner of Wimple Hall, the 2nd Earl of Hardwicke. It seems most probable that the view of the church and stables on the Wedgwood piece was based on a drawing by the daughter of the estate owner, Lady Amabel Polwarth. It is a known fact that in his enterprise Wedgwood quite often used works by amateur female artists from aristocratic families. |
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