Leaf from Aedes Walpolianae mounted with two drawings (a): Side of the Staircase, Houghton Hall, Norfolk, Elevation; (b): End of Staircase, Houghton Hall, Norfolk

Isaac Ware

1735 · (a, b): pen and black ink, brush and gray wash · Drawings and Prints

Leaf from Aedes Walpolianae mounted with two drawings (a): Side of the Staircase, Houghton Hall, Norfolk, Elevation; (b): End of Staircase, Houghton Hall, Norfolk — Isaac Ware

These drawings relate to Isaac Ware's and Thomas Ripley's book "The Plans, Elevations and Sections, Chimney-pieces and Ceilings of Houghton in Norfolk" (first published 1735; second edition 1755 with added "Description of the Pictures at Houghton" by Horace Walpole).

Artist: Isaac Ware
Date: 1735
Medium: (a, b): pen and black ink, brush and gray wash
Department: Drawings and Prints
Credit line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1925