Ceiling to the Yellow Drawing Room, Houghton Hall, Norfolk

Isaac Ware British

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Ceiling design: oval center with a star containing the Order of the Garter, surrounded by 10 small rectangular panels. A plan of the ceiling moulding at the top. This drawing relates 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).

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