The general front of Houghton in Norfolk the seat of the Right Honourable Robert Walpole Esqr. ... Elevation general de Houghton dans le Comté de Norfolk maison de Robert Walpole Esqr. &c. ; The general plan / [graphic] =

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Title: The general front of Houghton in Norfolk the seat of the Right Honourable Robert Walpole Esqr. ... Elevation general de Houghton dans le Comté de Norfolk maison de Robert Walpole Esqr. &c. ; The general plan / [graphic] =
Alternative Title: General plan
Elevation general de Houghton dans le Comté de Norfolk maison de Robert Walpole Esqr. &c.
Creator: Hulsberg, Henry, -1729, printmaker
Contributor: Campbell, Colen, 1676-1729, architect.
Published / Created: [1767?]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: publisher not identified
Abstract: Plate showing two architectural representations of Houghton Hall, one above the other. The top image shows an elevation of the front of the house; the bottom image shows a floor plan of the building
Description: Titles in English and French for top image are etched below scale bar for that image; title in English for bottom image is etched above scale bar for that image.
Title in English for top image continues: ... Chancellor of Exqr. and First Lord Comr. of his Majesty's Treasury, &c. Design'd by Colen Campbell Esqr. 1723.
Date of publication from that of the volume in which the plate appeared.
Plate from: Campbell, C. Vitruvius Britannicus or the British architect ... [London], [publisher not identified], [1767?].
"P. 29, vol. 3d" etched in upper left corner and "p. 30" etched in upper right corner.
Imperfect; top image only is present, with bottom image and statements of responsibility having been trimmed away. Description based on a more perfect impression.
Mounted on page 10 of Richard Bull's copiously extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784. See Hazen, A.T. Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 13.
A second scale bar, trimmed from a different print, has been pasted in lower right corner of sheet.
For further information, consult library staff.
Provenance: Mrs. Curtis, of Langford Hall, Newark, Nottinghamshire; August 1937. Sold at Sotheby's 29 April-1 May 1880 (Bull sale), lot 886, to Ellis, £110. Offered by Ellis & White in Catalogue 46, ca. 1881 for £210. Sold at Sotheby's 15(16) June 1920?, lot 243 to Lynch, (C. Constable Curtis of Langford Hall, Newark, Nottinghamshire), £255.
Extent: 1 print : sheet 11.2 x 50 cm
Language: English
French

Collection Information

Repository: Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number: Folio 33 30 Copy 11

Subjects, Formats, And Genres

Genre: Book illustrations
Etchings England London 1767
Material: etching ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Geographic): England
Norfolk.
Subject (Name): Walpole, Robert, Earl of Orford, 1676-1745
Houghton Hall (England)
Subject (Topic): Homes and haunts
Elevations
Floor plans
Subjects: Walpole, Robert, Earl of Orford, 1676-1745 > Homes and haunts > England > Norfolk
Houghton Hall (England)
Elevations
Floor plans
England > London > 1767
Bull, Richard, 1725-1806 > Ownership
Curtis, Charles Constable, 1852-1936 > Ownership
Curtis, Edith Fanny Onslow, -1944 > Ownership

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Access: Public
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Identifiers

Orbis Record: 13400514
Object ID (OID): 16729644