[Red book for Wimpole Hall].
Humphry Repton (1752 - 1818)
Category
Manuscripts and documents
Date
1801
Materials
Collection
Wimpole, Cambridgeshire
NT 3076479
Summary
Bibliographic description
[15] leaves, [1], VI plates ; 21.2 x 28.9 cm. Fo. 2v. is signed by Repton and dated: Octr. 1801. Repton includes the dates of his visits to Wimpole of July 1801 and September 1801. Old tea or coffee stain on fo. 3v. Plate IV has had something else attached as it retains the stub on the verso, with a cropped pencil sketch of another house front. Binding: unbound, in folding box. The volume has at some date been disbound, but retains the sewing holes.
Makers and roles
Humphry Repton (1752 - 1818), landscape architect