Bird's eye view of Dunham Massey, c.1697 (oil on canvas)

originally built in 1616 by Sir George Booth; In the Great Gallery at Dunham Massey, where this picture hangs, is one of the most remarkable and comprehensive surveys of a country house ever painted. This is the earliest, showing the Tudor house in 1697, with its formal garden and newly planted park. It accords well with a view of the house from a slightly different angle, engraved by Kip after a drawing by Leonard Knyff a year later. Both show a house almost as large as the present one, entirely surrounded by a moat which was formed by damming a tributary of the diminutive river Bollin. The artist is better known for his decorative overdoor and overmantel compositions.