A front elevation of Ingestre Hall, Staffordshire (after James Astbury Hammersley)
Day and Son
Category
Art / Prints
Date
Unknown
Materials
Glass, Paper, Pine
Measurements
330 x 420 mm
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Belton House, Lincolnshire
NT 434237
Summary
A colour 19th century lithograph, Front Elevation of Ingestre Hall, Staffordshire (after James Astbury Hammersley (1815-1869) by Day and Son.. The house is shown with figures in the front ground. Framed.Ingestre Hall is a 17th-century Jacobean mansion situated near Stafford. Formerly the seat of the Earls Talbot and then the Earls of Shrewsbury, the hall is now owned (2017) by Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council and is in use as a Residential Arts and Conference Centre.The Hall was built in red brick, on the site of an earlier manor house, in 1613 for Sir Walter Chetwynd, the High Sheriff of Staffordshire in 1607.The Hall was renovated in the early 19th century by architect John Nash for the 2nd Earl, Charles Chetwynd-Talbot.
Makers and roles
Day and Son, engraver (printmaker) James Astbury Hammersley (Burslem 1815 - Manchester 1869), original artist