PERSPECTIVE VIEW OF WENTWORTH HOUSE, IN YORKSHIRE 1771 ANTIQUE ENGRAVING

Original 1771 6 1/4 inch x 11 inch copper plate engraving titled PERSPECTIVE VIEW OF WENTWORTH HOUSE, IN YORKSHIRE; THE SEAT OF THE MARQUISS OF ROCKINGHAM.

Wentworth Woodhouse was built on the site of a medieval hall which had been replaced by a house of 1630 built by the first Earl of Strafford. The present building was erected in two campaigns, with the west front being erected 1725-34, retaining elements of the 1630 house, and the east front, to designs by Henry Flitcroft, in the period 1734 to c 1760. The east front has the longest front, stretching for more than 590 feet, of any English country house.

From ‘The complete English Traveller; a new survey and Description of England and wales. Containing a full Account of whatever is curious and entertaining in the several Counties of England and Wales, The Isles of Man, Jersey, Guernsey, and other islands adjoining to, and dependant on the Crown of Great Britain’ by Nathaniel Spencer.

Printed for John Cooke, Shakespeare’s Head, Paternoster Row, London 1771.

Page size 9 inch x 14 inch

The engraving, on chain-laid paper, is in very good condition with minor age related toning. Reverse side blank.