The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of December 19, 2025

Beaufort House, Chelsea

1707–9

Johannes Kip

(Dutch, 1653–1722)

after Leendert Knijff

(Dutch, 1650–1721)
Netherlands
etching and engraving, hand colored
Platemark: 35.9 x 49.4 cm (14 1/8 x 19 7/16 in.); Sheet: 54.3 x 64.8 cm (21 3/8 x 25 1/2 in.)
Nancy F. and Joseph P. Keithley Collection Gift 2020.163
Location: Not on view

Did You Know?

The house and gardens portrayed in this hand-colored engraving were destroyed in 1740.

Description

This detailed view of Beaufort House in Chelsea portrays the gabled house, built in 1521, and its extensive formal gardens. Part of a large folio publication of the principal seats of the nobility in England, the Britannia Illustrata, it portrays a structure that was once the home of Sir Thomas More and that was demolished in 1740. The two Dutch artists who collaborated on this and the other topographical views in the volume, both resident in England, were exacting in their depictions of the architecture and gardens, providing valuable insight to the land and buildings of the time.
  • ca. 1988
    (Vixseboxse Art Galleries, Inc., Cleveland Heights, OH)
    Mr. and Mrs. Joseph P. Keithley, Cleveland, OH
    March 2, 2020
    The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
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Source URL:

https://www.clevelandart.org/art/2020.163