A series of picturesque views of noblemen's & gentlemen's seats : with historical and descriptive accounts of each subject / engraved in aquatinta by R. Havell & Son.
Alternate Title(s):
Picturesque views of noblemen's and gentlemen's seats
Published / Created:
London : Published July 1, 1823 by R. Havell, Chapel Strt. Tottenham Cout Road, 1823.
Physical Description:
[42] pages, [21] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 49 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Related Content:
View a selection of digital images in the Yale Center for British Art's online catalogue
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/vufind/Record/2029799
Classification:
Books
Notes:
Aquatint engravings by Robert Havell and Robert Havell & Son; after William Havell, Copley Fielding, J.M.W. Turner, John Britton, Frederick Mackenzie, John Burnet, Joseph Clarendon Smith, Francis Nicholson, Elizabeth Blackwell, T. C. Hofland. George Cattermole, Henry Gastineau, and Thomas Higham.
Contents:
Windsor Castle from the play-ground of Eton College -- Park Place near Henley upon Thames the seat of the Earl of Malmsbury -- Sion House -- A view from Richmond Hill -- Billingbear Berks. The seat of the Rt. Honble. Lord Braybrooke -- Wanstead House, the seat of William Pole Tylney Long Wellesley Esqr. -- Longleat, Wiltshire. The seat of the Marquis of Bath -- Kings Weston, near Bristol. The seat of Lord de Clifford -- Corsham House, Wiltshire. The seat of Paul Methuen Esq. -- Cassiobury, Hertfordshire. The seat of the Earl of Essex -- Buckingham House, Middlesex, a palace of Her Majesty -- Holland House, Middlesex, the seat of the Right Honorable Lord Holland -- View of the Pantheon, &c, Stourhead Gardens -- View of Blenheim, Oxfordshire. The seat of His Grace the Duke of Marlborough -- View of Blenheim, Oxfordshire, the seat of His Grace the Duke of Marlborough -- View of Holkham Hall, Norfolk, the seat of Thomas William Coke Esqr. -- View of Burghley House, Northamptonshire, the seat of the Marquis of Exeter -- View of Frogmore House, Windsor, Berkshire -- Chiswick House, Middlesex -- Fonthill Abbey, Wiltshire.
Exhibition History:
Art in Focus: John Goto's High Summer (Yale Center for British Art, 2018-04-06 - 2018-08-19)
Subject Terms:
Architecture, Domestic -- England -- Pictorial works. | Country homes -- England -- Pictorial works. | Landscapes -- England. | Beaumont, Richard Blackett -- Bookplate. | Zaehnsdorf -- Bookbinder. | William, Jane Wynn -- Autograph. | Bishop, Cortlandt F. (Cortlandt Field), 1870–1935 -- Bookplate.
Form/Genre:
Aquatints. | Hand coloring. | Armorial bookplates (Provenance) | Prospectuses.
Contributors:
Havell, Robert, 1793–1878, engraver. | R. Havell & Son, engraver. | Blackwell, Elizabeth, active 1818, illustrator. | Britton, John, 1771–1857, illustrator. | Burnet, John, 1784–1868, illustrator. | Cattermole, George, 1800–1868, illustrator. | Fielding, Copley, 1787–1855, illustrator. | Gastineau, Henry G., 1791–1876, illustrator. | Havell, William, 1782–1857, illustrator. | Higham, Thomas, 1796–1844, illustrator. | Hofland, T. C. (Thomas Christopher), 1777–1843, illustrator. | Mackenzie, Frederick, 1787 or 1788–1854, illustrator. | Nicholson, Francis, 1753–1844, illustrator. | Smith, Joseph Clarendon, 1778–1810, illustrator. | Turner, J. M. W. (Joseph Mallord William), 1775–1851, illustrator.
