The plans, elevations, and sections, chimney-pieces, and cielings [sic] of Houghton in Norfolk : built by Sr. Robert Walpole ... Earl of Orford &c. / the whole designed by Thomas Ripley ... ; delinated by Isaac Ware and William Kent ... ; and engrav'd by ... Mr. Fourdrinier , with a description of the house and of the elegant collection of pictures.

Accession number

PML 55661

Creator

Ripley, Thomas, -1758.

Published

London : Sold by C. Fourdrinier ..., Mr. Lewis ..., Messrs. Piers and Webley ..., 1760.

Credit line

Gift of Henry S. Morgan, 1965.

Notes

The "description" (text of which is in double columns) is taken from Ædes Walpolianæ / by Horace Walpole.

Description

[4], 10 p., [37] leaves of plates : ill., plans ; 50 cm

Provenance

Mrs. J.P. Morgan's collection.

Classification

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