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The Plans, Elevations, And Sections; Chimney-Pieces, and Cielings [sic] of Houghton in Norfolk. The Seat of the Rt. Honourable Sr. Robert Walpole
Etching
1735 (first published)
1735 (first published)
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Object Type
This print by Paul Fourdrinier is an etching. The action of acid was used to make a pattern of grooves on a copper printing plate. This image on the printing plate was the reverse of the final image. The grooves were then filled with ink and the image was transferred onto a blank sheet of paper.
Place
Houghton Hall is a magnificent country house in Norfolk, built by Sir Robert Walpole, the Prime Minister, in the 1720s and early 1730s. The ornate ceiling shown in this plate matched the grandeur and richness of the rest of the saloon. In the 1760 edition of Isaac Ware's book it was described as 'forty feet long, forty high and thirty wide; the Hanging is Crimson flower'd Velvet; the Ceiling painted by Kent, who design'd all the Ornaments throughout the House. The chimney-piece is of Black and Gold Marble of which too are the Tables.'
Subject Depicted
There is a large coving, or concave moulding, between the top of the wall and the highly decorated rectangular area in the centre of the ceiling.
This print by Paul Fourdrinier is an etching. The action of acid was used to make a pattern of grooves on a copper printing plate. This image on the printing plate was the reverse of the final image. The grooves were then filled with ink and the image was transferred onto a blank sheet of paper.
Place
Houghton Hall is a magnificent country house in Norfolk, built by Sir Robert Walpole, the Prime Minister, in the 1720s and early 1730s. The ornate ceiling shown in this plate matched the grandeur and richness of the rest of the saloon. In the 1760 edition of Isaac Ware's book it was described as 'forty feet long, forty high and thirty wide; the Hanging is Crimson flower'd Velvet; the Ceiling painted by Kent, who design'd all the Ornaments throughout the House. The chimney-piece is of Black and Gold Marble of which too are the Tables.'
Subject Depicted
There is a large coving, or concave moulding, between the top of the wall and the highly decorated rectangular area in the centre of the ceiling.
Object details
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| Title | The Plans, Elevations, And Sections; Chimney-Pieces, and Cielings [sic] of Houghton in Norfolk. The Seat of the Rt. Honourable Sr. Robert Walpole (suite title) |
| Materials and techniques | Etching and engraving |
| Brief description | William Kent (after), plate 20 from 'The Plans, Elevations, And Sections; Chimney-Pieces, and Cielings [sic] of Houghton in Norfolk. The Seat of the Rt. Honourable Sr. Robert Walpole ...', London 1735. |
| Physical description | Etching of a ceiling |
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| Gallery label | British Galleries:
William Kent designed the geometric panels of this ceiling to be decorated with luxuriant painted decoration in strong colours. Kent trained as a decorative painter and intended even the corner panels to be painted, although here the engraving gives the effect of modelled plasterwork.(27/03/2003) |
| Object history | From a drawing dated 1725. Plate 20 of Isaac Ware, 'The Plans Elevations and Sections; Chimney-pieces and Cielings[sic] of Houghton in Norfolk' The ceiling designed by William Kent (born in Bridlington, East Yorkshire, 1684; died in London, 1748); drawn and published in London by Isaac Ware (born in 1704, died in London, 1766); etched and engraved by Paul Fourdrinier (active 1720-1758) |
| Summary | Object Type This print by Paul Fourdrinier is an etching. The action of acid was used to make a pattern of grooves on a copper printing plate. This image on the printing plate was the reverse of the final image. The grooves were then filled with ink and the image was transferred onto a blank sheet of paper. Place Houghton Hall is a magnificent country house in Norfolk, built by Sir Robert Walpole, the Prime Minister, in the 1720s and early 1730s. The ornate ceiling shown in this plate matched the grandeur and richness of the rest of the saloon. In the 1760 edition of Isaac Ware's book it was described as 'forty feet long, forty high and thirty wide; the Hanging is Crimson flower'd Velvet; the Ceiling painted by Kent, who design'd all the Ornaments throughout the House. The chimney-piece is of Black and Gold Marble of which too are the Tables.' Subject Depicted There is a large coving, or concave moulding, between the top of the wall and the highly decorated rectangular area in the centre of the ceiling. |
| Bibliographic reference | (Berlin I) Berlin Staatliche Museen, Katalog der Ornamentstich-Sammlung der Staatlichen Kunstbibliothek Berlin, Berlin and Leipzig, 1936-39, 2331. |
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| Accession number | 29637:172 |
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| Record created | April 4, 2003 |
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