Salon Ceiling, Houghton Hall, Norfolk
Artist and architect Isaac Ware British
Not on view
Design for ceiling with decorative carving in the vault an an octagonal-shaped painting of Apollo in his chariot. This 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).
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