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
Alternative Title:
Plan du principal etage de Houghton dans Norfolk maison Robert Walpole Esqr. &c. and Plan of the attik story
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., and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
England and Norfolk.
Subject (Name):
Walpole, Robert, Earl of Orford, 1676-1745 and Houghton Hall (England)
Simon, John Peter, -approximately 1810, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1 September 1787]
Call Number:
Drawer 787.09.01.05
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title from caption below image., Text below title: Picture the size of the print., Etched coat of arms below image, lacking motto., Plate LIX from: A set of prints engraved after the most capital paintings in the collection of ... the empress of Russia. London: J. & J. Boydell, 1788, v. 2., and On same sheet: Three soldiers.
Publisher:
Published Sepr. 1st, 1787, by John & Josiah Boydell, No. 90, Cheapside
Autographed letter signed from Joseph Farington to John Boydell written from Houghton Hall the seat of Sir Robert Walpole, Earl of Orford where he spent three years making drawings of the paintings for Boydell's Collection of prints after the most capital paintings in England (2 vols., 1782). He reports on the progress of his work in general and in particular his work with "the Paul Brills".
Description:
In English. and For further information, consult library staff.
Subject (Name):
Boydell, John, 1720-1804., Houghton Hall (England), and Walpole, Robert, Earl of Orford, 1676-1745
Title from caption below image., Text below title: Size of the picture, 2 f. 0 1/4 i. by 2 f. 7 i. high., Etched coat of arms below image bearing the motto: Fari quae sentiat., Plate LV from: A set of prints engraved after the most capital paintings in the collection of ... the empress of Russia. London: J. & J. Boydell, 1788, v. 2., and On same sheet: Virgin and child.
Publisher:
Pubd. Jany. 1st, 1784, by John Boydell, engraver, in Cheapside
Subject (Geographic):
England and Norfolk.
Subject (Name):
Walpole, Robert, Earl of Orford, 1676-1745 and Houghton Hall (England)
