Allegory of the Planets and Continents is a 1752 painting (or detailed sketch) by Italian artist Giovanni Battista Tiepolo.

[1] Done in oil on canvas, the allegorical work uses human figures to represent members of the Greco-Roman pantheon, the planets, and four continents.

The painting is an elaborate oil sketch made by Tiepolo in preparation for rendering a similar, larger version of the scene as a massive fresco.

[1] Between December 1750 and November 1753, Tiepolo was commissioned to decorate the Prince-Bishop of Würzburg Karl Philipp von Greifenclau zu Vollraths newly constructed palace on the ceiling of a staircase.

How it came to be at Hendon Hall is not entirely clear: the house was once owned by the actor David Garrick although he never lived there.