Tag: Earl of Leicester

Old visions of the Palladian Holkham Hall which is situated on England’s Norfolk coast. Home to the Earl of Leicester, they have a website with tour times or you can have one bang up wedding with the reception in their baronial dining room. Though whether the ceiling still looks as it did in 1773 when the book these are from was published I have no idea.

End Front next the Lake. Page 55 of The plans, elevations and sections, of Holkham in Norfolk, the seat of the late Earl of Leicester : to which are added, the ceilings and chimney-pieces : and also a descriptive account of the statues, pictures, and drawings. Matthew Brettingham, architect, author. Published in London by T. Spilsbury in 1773. Collections of the Getty Research Institute. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/gri_33125010717235/page/n54/mode/1up
Great Dining Room Ceiling. Inigo Jones. After a drawing by J (James) Miller. Page 93 of The plans, elevations and sections, of Holkham in Norfolk, the seat of the late Earl of Leicester: to which are added, the ceilings and chimney-pieces : and also a descriptive account of the statues, pictures, and drawings. Matthew Brettingham, architect, author. Published in London by T. Spilsbury in 1773. Collections of the Getty Research Institute. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/gri_33125010717235/page/n92/mode/1up
Blue Closet Ceiling. New Wing – Red Closet Ceiling. New Wing – Lady Leicester’s Closet Ceiling. William Kent architect. Page 109 of The plans, elevations and sections, of Holkham in Norfolk, the seat of the late Earl of Leicester: to which are added, the ceilings and chimney-pieces : and also a descriptive account of the statues, pictures, and drawings. Matthew Brettingham, architect, author. Published in London by T. Spilsbury in 1773. Collections of the Getty Research Institute. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/gri_33125010717235/page/n108/mode/1up
Section of the Chapel. After a drawing by J (James) Miller. Page 111 of The plans, elevations and sections, of Holkham in Norfolk, the seat of the late Earl of Leicester: to which are added, the ceilings and chimney-pieces : and also a descriptive account of the statues, pictures, and drawings. Matthew Brettingham, architect, author. Published in London by T. Spilsbury in 1773. Collections of the Getty Research Institute. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/gri_33125010717235/page/n110/mode/1up
Principal Windows. After a drawing by J (James) Miller. Page 131 of The plans, elevations and sections, of Holkham in Norfolk, the seat of the late Earl of Leicester: to which are added, the ceilings and chimney-pieces : and also a descriptive account of the statues, pictures, and drawings. Matthew Brettingham, architect, author. Published in London by T. Spilsbury in 1773. Collections of the Getty Research Institute. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/gri_33125010717235/page/n130/mode/1up
Venetian Window in South Front. C. White. Page 132 of The plans, elevations and sections, of Holkham in Norfolk, the seat of the late Earl of Leicester: to which are added, the ceilings and chimney-pieces : and also a descriptive account of the statues, pictures, and drawings. Matthew Brettingham, architect, author. Published in London by T. Spilsbury in 1773. Collections of the Getty Research Institute. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/gri_33125010717235/page/n132/mode/1up
Drawing Room and Gallery Chimney-Pieces. Inigo Jones. John Roberts, engraver. Page 135 of The plans, elevations and sections, of Holkham in Norfolk, the seat of the late Earl of Leicester: to which are added, the ceilings and chimney-pieces : and also a descriptive account of the statues, pictures, and drawings. Matthew Brettingham, architect, author. Published in London by T. Spilsbury in 1773. Collections of the Getty Research Institute. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/gri_33125010717235/page/n134/mode/1up
Bridge at the Head of the Lake. Page 168 of The plans, elevations and sections, of Holkham in Norfolk, the seat of the late Earl of Leicester: to which are added, the ceilings and chimney-pieces : and also a descriptive account of the statues, pictures, and drawings. Matthew Brettingham, architect, author. Published in London by T. Spilsbury in 1773. Collections of the Getty Research Institute. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/gri_33125010717235/page/n168/mode/1up
Front of the East Lodges near the Road. Page 185 of The plans, elevations and sections, of Holkham in Norfolk, the seat of the late Earl of Leicester: to which are added, the ceilings and chimney-pieces : and also a descriptive account of the statues, pictures, and drawings. Matthew Brettingham, architect, author. Published in London by T. Spilsbury in 1773. Collections of the Getty Research Institute. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/gri_33125010717235/page/n185/mode/1up

Matthew Brettingham was one of the architects who built Holkham Hall. Inigo Jones who is listed on a few of these renderings lived and worked in the 17th century but he introduced Palladian architecture to Great Britain which is presumably why his name is included.