Peterhouse Lodge

M.J. Hamblin Smith

The Peterhouse Lodge, also known as the Masters Lodge at Peterhouse, is a red brick Queen Anne style house in Cambridgeshire, England across from Cambridge University, built in 1701 for the Master of the university, Joseph Beaumont. Here, the artist M.J. Hamblin has depicted the elegant structure in winter, laden with snow.

Hamblin created six portraits of Peterhouse “masters” from the 17th through the early 20th century. Little is known about Hamblin save for his artistic interest in Cambridgeshire and the University, and his clear talent for color woodcuts. It could be that Hamblin was himself a student at Cambridge who did printmaking in his spare time.