Leaf from Aedes Walpolianae mounted with a drawing and a print: Plan of the Ground Floor (The Great Floor), Houghton Hall, Norfolk (recto); Le Gladiateur (verso)

Artist and architect Isaac Ware British
 Engraver Simon Thomassin French
 After Michel Monier French

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Album leaf mounted with 25.62.27r(a): a drawing by Ware, a plan, with each room identified by Horace Walpole's hand. The 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).

25.62.27r(b): Sculpture known as The Gladiator, with title in French engraved in plate.

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