Plan of the principal story of Houghton in Norfolk the seat of the Right Honourable Robert Walpole Esqr. ... Plan du principal etage de Houghton dans Norfolk maison Robert Walpole Esqr. &c. ; Plan of the attik [sic] story / [graphic] =

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Title: Plan of the principal story of Houghton in Norfolk the seat of the Right Honourable Robert Walpole Esqr. ... Plan du principal etage de Houghton dans Norfolk maison Robert Walpole Esqr. &c. ; Plan of the attik [sic] story / [graphic] =
Alternative Title: Plan du principal etage de Houghton dans Norfolk maison Robert Walpole Esqr. &c.
Plan of the attik story
Creator: Hulsberg, Henry, -1729, printmaker
Contributor: Campbell, Colen, 1676-1729, architect.
Published / Created: [1767?]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: publisher not identified
Abstract: Plate showing side-by-side floor plans for two levels of Houghton Hall. The image on the left shows a floor plan of the main level of the house; the image on the right shows a floor plan of the attic level of the house
Description: Title in English for image on left is etched in lower left above scale bar; title in French for image on left is etched in lower left below scale bar. Title in English for image on right is etched in lower right above scale bar.
Title in English for image on left continues: ... Chancellor of Exqr. and First Lord Comr. of his Majesty's Treasury. Erected anno 1723. 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. 31, vol. 3d"--Upper left corner.
Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of title for image on left, statements of responsibility, and volume and page numbering. Missing text supplied from a more perfect impression.
Mounted on page 11 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.
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 14.3 x 37 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
Floor plans
Subjects: Walpole, Robert, Earl of Orford, 1676-1745 > Homes and haunts > England > Norfolk
Houghton Hall (England)
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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Identifiers

Orbis Record: 13400741
Object ID (OID): 16729645