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

1717–35

Not on view

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.

Artwork Details

Title: 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, before 1704–1766 Hampstead)
Engraver: Simon Thomassin (French, 1652–1732)
Artist: After Michel Monier (French, active Rome, 1672–82, died 1686)
Date: 1717–35
Medium: Pen and black ink, brush and gray wash (recto); engraving (verso)
Dimensions: Leaf: 28 15/16 × 20 1/2 in. (73.5 × 52 cm)
Classifications: Drawings, Manuscripts, Prints, Ornament & Architecture
Credit Line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1925
Object Number: 25.62.27r(a,b)
Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints

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Aedes Walpolianae, or a Description of the Collection of Pictures at Houghton Hall in Norfolk, the Seat of the Right Honorable Sir Robert Walpole, Earl of Orford (Interleaved with Drawings by Isaac Ware for: The Plans, Elevations, and Sections of Chimney Pieces, and Celings of Houghton Hall in Norfolk...1735) ["The Walpole Album"], Horace Walpole, 4th Earl of Orford British, Etching, engraving, pen and ink, brush and wash, watercolor — Aedes Walpolianae, or a Description of the Collection of Pictures at Houghton Hall in Norfolk, the Seat of the Right Honorable Sir Robert Walpole, Earl of Orford (Interleaved with Drawings by Isaac Ware for: The Plans, Elevations, and Sections of Chimney Pieces, and Celings of Houghton Hall in Norfolk...1735) ["The Walpole Album"]
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