Isaac de Caus
Isaac de Caus (1590–1648) was a French landscaper and architect. He arrived in England in 1612 to carry on the work that his brother Salomon de Caus had left behind. His first known work in England was a grotto that Caus designed in 1623 located in the basement of Inigo Jones's Banqueting House.
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Isaac de Caus
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- Name
- Isaac de Caus
- Born
- 1590
- Birthplace
- Dieppe
- Died
- 1648
- Place of death
- Paris
- Nationality
- France
- Occupation
- architect · engineer
- Known for
- Wilton House
- Languages
- French
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Isaac de Caus (1590–1648) was a French landscaper and architect. He arrived in England in 1612 to carry on the work that his brother Salomon de Caus had left behind. His first known work in England was a grotto that Caus designed in 1623 located in the basement of Inigo Jones's Banqueting House.
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He is noted for his work at Wilton House and Lincoln's Inn. He was the architect in charge of carrying out Inigo Jones's design for Covent Garden. Documented clients include Mary, Countess of Home at her London townhouse in Aldersgate. Surviving buildings include the stables at Wilton House, designed in 1630s closely following an elevation published by Sebastiano Serlio.
The recorded working language is French. Places of work recorded in the authority are Great Britain and London. Works named in the authority record are Wilton House. Work by Isaac de Caus is recorded in the collections of TIB special collections.
![Hydraulics: three fire-engines [?]. Woodcut, 1659., 1659, by Isaac de Caus](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/V0024476ER/full/800,/0/default.jpg)
Hydraulics: three fire-engines [?]. Woodcut, 1659., 1659, by Isaac de Caus
Isaac de Caus · Wellcome Collection, London · Wellcome Collection
Hydraulics: three devices, including a pump, a clock, and a drinking fountain. Woodcut, 1659., 1659, by Isaac de Caus
Isaac de Caus · Wellcome Collection, London · Wellcome Collection
Key facts
Key facts
• Name — Isaac de Caus • Born — 1590 • Birthplace — Dieppe • Died — 1648 • Place of death — Paris • Significant Buildings — Wilton House
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Isaac de Caus is recorded as architect and engineer.
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1590
Isaac de Caus born at Dieppe.
1648
Isaac de Caus died at Paris.
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Dieppe.
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A new and rare invention of water-works, teaching how to raise water higher than the spring, by which invention the perpetual motion is proposed, and many hard labours performed.
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Literature
Caus, Isaac de, Oxford Art Online, 2003
Caus, Isaac de, Benezit Dictionary of Artists, 2011
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- 1.Duggan, Dianne. Isaac de Caus: surveyor, grotto and garden designer. Studies in the History of Gardens & Designed Landscapes. 29. 3. 152–168. 2009-09-01. 1460-1176.
- 2.Summerson, John. Inigo Jones. Penguin, 1966. 96. 1966. 9780140208399.
- 3.W. G Spiers, 'Account Book of Nicolas Stone', 7th Volume of the Walpole Society (Oxford, 1919), p. 117.
- 4.Giles Worsley, Inigo Jones and the European Classical Tradition (Yale, 2007), p. 90.
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