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Original Drawings

1781 site plan by Culpability Heath

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Image attributed to William "Culpability" Heath, c. 1781

 

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The Grotto at Stoney Grove, 1793 --unsigned

This unattributed sketch is in the picturesque style of a more well-known drawing by the Revd. William Gilpin, executed at Painshill in 1772. 

It would appear that  Heath drew inspiration from that feature of Hamilton’s Painshill landscape.  Whilst Heath must certainly have been familiar with Hamilton's famous garden in Surrey, there is no direct evidence that he visited it.