The plans, elevations, and sections, chimney-pieces, and cielings [sic] of Houghton in Norfolk : built by the Rt. Honourable Sr. Robert Walpole ... Earl of Orford &c. / the whole designed by Thomas Ripley ; delinated by Isaac Ware and William Kent ; and most elegantly engrav'd by ... Mr. Fourdrinier ; with a description of the house and of the elegant collection of pictures.

Main entry:

Ripley, Thomas, -1758.

Title & Author:

Publication:

London : Sold by C. Fourdrinier ..., Mr. Lewis ..., Messrs. Piers and Webley ..., 1760.

Description:

[2] leaves, 10 pages, 35 [i.e. 37] leaves of plates : illustrations, plans ; 57 cm

Notes:
The "description" (text of which is in double columns) is taken from: Ædes Walpolianæ / by Horace Walpole.

Subject:

Walpole, Robert, Earl of Orford, 1676-1745 Homes and haunts England Norfolk.
Walpole, Robert, Earl of Orford, 1676-1745
Manors England Norfolk Designs and plans.
Neoclassicism (Architecture) England Norfolk.
Néoclassicisme (Architecture) Angleterre Norfolk.
Manoirs Angleterre Norfolk Dessins et plans.
Homes
Manors
Neoclassicism (Architecture)
Houghton Hall (England)
England Houghton Hall
England Norfolk

Form/genre:

Architectural drawings

Added entries:

Kent, William, 1685-1748.
Ware, Isaac, 1704?-1766.
Fourdrinier, P., active 1720-1760.
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797. Ædes Walpolianæ.

Holdings:

Location: Library main m 22653
Call No.: WM6099; ID:87-B957
Status: Available

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