H. Wallis after T. H. Williams, ‘Ugbrooke House, Devonshire. The Seat of the Right Honourable Lord Clifford’ in Thomas Moore, The History of Devonshire: from the Earliest Period to the Present. London: Robert Jennings, 1829. S474.c.82.1–2

As was so often the case, at Ugbrooke, Brown was appointed to remodel the grounds to complement a brand new house. Lord Clifford had commissioned a new residence on the site in 1760 and construction concluded in 1769. A year later, Brown was consulted and his plan was carried out in the early 1770s. The scheme included a new drive from Chudleigh to the north-west, the addition of chestnuts and cedars, and two lakes united by a naturalistic cascade. While many guidebook illustrators chose to focus on the grand house, Williams’ view employs an unusually distant vantage point and thus displays large swathes of the surrounding landscape.