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Flixton Hall (text)

Maker

(artist)
1723-1798

(engraver)
1752-1821

(publisher)
1752-1821

Title

Flixton Hall (text)

Date of Production

executed :

Medium

Ink on paper

Dimensions

Height: 12.3 cm
Width: 20.1 cm

Accession Number

G.1990.WL.5533.1

Mode of Acquisition

Witt Library, transfer, 1990

Credit

The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Copyright

Work in the public domain

Location

Not currently on display

Keywords


Provenance

previous owner: Witt, Robert Clermont (Sir)

Inscriptions

Inscription: inscription : printed : centre & recto : : FLIXTON HALL, / In SUFFOLK, / The Seat of ALEXANDER ADAIR, Esquire. / Drawn by T. SANDBY, Esquire, / Drawn by T. SANDBY, Esquire, Professor of Architecture to the Royal Academy. / This noble Structure is pleasantly situated on the River Waveney, between the Market Towns of Harleston and Bungay, from / which latter Place the River is navigable to Yarmouth, where it discharges itself into the North Sea,...The Terrace shewn in the View of this Mansion has been levelled, and the Moat filled up, since the present Drawing was taken. / The Drawing is in the Possession of Alexander Adair, Esquire. //

Inscription: inscription : stamped : lower right margin & recto : later inscription : M //

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