Valentines Mansion Case Study: Valentines’ East India Company Owners and...
Plate decorated with the arms of Charles Raymond and his wife, Sarah Webster. China, c.1760, Porcelain. Private collection. Image courtesy of Georgina Green. As this section of the case study reveals...
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The Dundas Property Portfolio: ‘Conquests from North to South’ After receiving his baronetcy in 1762 (and the death of his father the same year) Lawrence Dundas began a ten year campaign of purchasing...
View ArticleShugborough Case Study: China in the Eighteenth-Century British Landscape
Plate. Jingdezhen, China. Wanli reign (1573-1620). Porcelain decorated in underglaze cobalt blue. London: Victoria and Albert Museum. C.588-1922. Chinese decorative objects such as porcelain had been...
View ArticleShugborough Case Study: The Chinese House, c.1747
Chinese House, Shugborough, Staffordshire. Image courtesy of Stephen McDowall. Such was the domestic context in which a Chinese House, complete with boathouse, was erected on an island in an artificial...
View ArticleJosiah Child and the Wanstead Estate Case Study
Josiah Child and the Wanstead Estate By Hannah Armstrong Please note that this case study was first published on blogs.ucl.ac.uk/eicah in April 2014. The case study was last checked by the project...
View ArticleSezincote case study: Sezincote: A Brief Description
Figure 2: East façade, Sezincote; the copper Mughal-style dome dominates the skyline. Photograph by Jan Sibthorpe © 2013. Sezincote: A Brief Description By the standards of early nineteenth-century...
View Articlesezincote case study: making choices, building houses, finding inspiration
Figure 9: South front of Sezincote showing the sweep of the orangery from the house to the pavilion. Note the peacock tail windows on the house and the orangery. Photograph by Jan Sibthorpe © 2014....
View Articlesezincote case study: building sezincote: building a reputation
Figure 12: Thomas Daniell, ‘Design for the Indian Bridge at Sezincote, Moreton-in-Marsh’, RIBA 3951. Image courtesy of RIBA Library, Drawings and Archives Collections. Building Sezincote: Building a...
View ArticleMiddleton Hall Case Study
Figure 1. ‘Middleton Hall Front View’, lithograph by Augustus Butler. 1853. Image courtesy of Lowri Ann Rees. Middleton Hall, Carmarthenshire by Lowri Ann Rees Please note that this case study was...
View ArticleRobert Smith and Redcliffe Towers Case Study
Figure 1. The Hotel Redcliffe (Redcliffe Towers), Paignton, Devon, early 20th century. © The Redcliffe Hotel. A Fairy Palace in Devon: Redcliffe Towers, built by Colonel Robert Smith (1787-1873),...
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