The plans, elevations, and sections; chimney-pieces, and cielings of Houghton in Norfolk; built by 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. Who was for his great merit created Earl of Orford &c. The whole designed by Thomas Ripley Esqr. Delineated by Isaac Ware and William Kent Esqrs. And most elegantly engrav'd by the ingenious Mr. Fourdrinier. With a description of the house and of the elegant collection of pictures.
Thomas Ripley (1682-1758)
Category
Books
Date
1760
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Felbrigg, Norfolk
NT 3221540
Summary
Bibliographic description
[4], 10 p., 35 [i.e. 37] leaves of plates : ill., plans ; fol. Two engraved plates pasted onto verso of front fly-leaf facing title page: [1] coat of arms of Robert Walpole, Earl of Orford -- [2] neoclassical pedestal with text 'Published by I: Ware'. Provenance: two armorial bookplates on front pastedown: [1] 'Richard Hanbury Gurney' (Arms. Gurney impaling Jary) [i.e. Richard Hanbury Gurney (1783-1854), of Keswick Hall and Thickthorne, Norfolk, M.P.] (Franks 13108) -- [2] 'Richard H. J. Gurney A.D. MDCCCLXXXI' [i.e. Richard Hanbury Joseph Gurney (1855-1899), grandson of Richard Hanbury Gurney] (not listed in Franks). Manuscript inscription in pencil on front fly-leaf: "R.W. Ketton-Cremer Felbrigg 1940" [i.e. Robert Wyndham Ketton-Cremer (1906-1969)]. Binding: nineteenth-century half-bound calf with shell pattern marbled paper over boards; gold-tooled spine with artificial grain; gilt title 'Houghton Hall in Norfolk' on black goatskin label on spine. Brown sprinkled textblock edges.
Makers and roles
Thomas Ripley (1682-1758), architect Isaac Ware (Hampstead c.1707 - London 1766), photographer William Kent (Bridlington 1685 - London 1748), artist and engraver Pierre Fourdrinier (1698-1758), engraver (printmaker) Horatio Walpole, 4th Earl of Orford (1717 - 1797), author