The general view of Houghton The south front of Houghton. [graphic]

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Title: The general view of Houghton The south front of Houghton. [graphic]
Published / Created: [approximately 1730]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: publisher not identified
Description: Titles etched below images.
Date of publication based on depiction of the corner towers with peaked roofs, which were changed to domes in the final design of the hosue.
Two images on one plate, each individually titled.
Four lines of explanatory text above top image: The general front, and the south front of Houghton in Norfolk, one of the seats of the Right Honourable Sr. Robert Walpole, Chancellour of the Exchequer &c. ...
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Mounted on page 81 of William Bawtree's extra-illustrated copy of Horace Walpole's: A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784. See A.T. Hazen's Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 11.
Provenance: Spencer, ex dono Annie Burr Lewis; June 1933. Sotheby's 14 July 1924 (Miscellaneous sale), lot 183 to Spencer. Formerly owned by Kirgate's friend William Bawtree (1744-1824) engraver.
Extent: 1 print : sheet 17.9 x 24 cm
Language: English

Genre: Etchings England London 1730
Material: etching with engraving ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Walpole, Robert, Earl of Orford, 1676-1745
Houghton Hall (England)
Subject (Topic): Homes and haunts
Dwellings
Subjects: Walpole, Robert, Earl of Orford, 1676-1745 > Homes and haunts
Houghton Hall (England)
Dwellings
England > London > 1730
Bawtree, William, 1744-1824 > Ownership

Access: Public
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