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The plans, elevations, and sections, chimney-pieces, and cielings of Houghton in Norfolk, the seat of the Rt. Honourable Sr. Robert Walpole, First Lord Commissioner of the Treasury, Chancellor of the Exchequer, and Knt. of the Most Noble Order of the Garter

1735 · [London] : Published by I. Ware · 16 pictures

A 1735 London folio of architectural plates published by I. Ware recording Houghton Hall in Norfolk, the country seat of Sir Robert Walpole, the first lord of the Treasury, for an audience of patrons and builders. The engravings show chimneypieces, ceilings, elevations and sections in fine line with grey wash, useful to a designer studying Palladian interior detail and classical ornament.

Walpole, Robert, Earl of Orford, 1676-1745 -- Homes and haunts -- England -- Norfolk · Houghton Hall (England) · Manors -- England -- Norfolk -- Designs and plans · Neoclassicism (Architecture) -- England -- Norfolk

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