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

Artist and architect Isaac Ware British

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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).

Leaf from Aedes Walpolianae mounted with two drawings: Side of the Staircase, Houghton Hall, Norfolk, Elevation (recto); End of Staircase, Houghton Hall, Norfolk (verso), Isaac Ware (British, before 1704–1766 Hampstead), Pen and black ink, brush and gray wash

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25.62.26r(a,b), Leaf from Aedes Walpolianae mounted with two drawings (a): Side of the Staircase, Houghton Hall, Norfolk, Elevation; (b): End of Staircase, Houghton Hall, Norfolk