Oxnead Hall and its terraced garden, Norfolk
John Adey Repton (Norwich 1775 – Springfield 1860)
Category
Art / Drawings and watercolours
Date
1809
Materials
Pen and brown ink and wash heightened with white, on paper,
Measurements
246 x 337 mm
Order this imageCollection
Felbrigg, Norfolk
NT 1396296
Summary
A picture in pen and brown ink and wash, heightened with white, on paper. It is of Oxnead Hall, Norfolk and its terraced garden, by John Adey Repton (Norwich 1775 – Springfield 1860). This was the second seat of the Pastons, built by Admiral Sir Clement Paston in the 16th-century and later pulled down by Admiral Lord Anson when he bought the estate in the mid 18th-century. This drawing is a sketch for an imaginary reconstruction of it that was engraved by John Smith. For a time John Adey Repton lived in the remaining service wing at Oxnead.
Provenance
Part of the Windham Collection. The hall and contents were bequeathed to the National Trust in 1969 by Robert Wyndham Ketton-Cremer (1906-1969)
Marks and inscriptions
Back: See Norfolk Assembly, by R.W. K-Cremer, The Treasure of Oxnead, p214. also C.L. June 5th 1986, by John Harris, Oh happy Oxnead. ??
Makers and roles
John Adey Repton (Norwich 1775 – Springfield 1860), artist