The Gardens at Kew

This is one of a set of five views of the evolving gardens at Kew by Schalch, a Swiss painter who spent a decade working in England (1754-63). This view of the the gardens and lake shows a white Chinese-style wooden bridge with a small white classical temple with a path in the distance. On the water in the foreground appear two swans; on the left in foreground two labourers cutting grass in the evening sunlight.