Image of An interior view of Strawberry Hill house, showing the Gallery

An interior view of Strawberry Hill house, showing the Gallery on the first floor, c.1955-c.1980...

IMAGE number: EHT5892666
Image title: An interior view of Strawberry Hill house, showing the Gallery on the first floor, c.1955-c.1980 (b/w photo)
Medium: photograph

Image description: The house was built by Horace Walpole between 1749 and 1979 with William Robinson and James Essex. The house has an L-shaped plan of an elaborate and irregular facade, with the two main fronts facing the south and east. The Gallery is situated on the first floor of the five bay wing extending east, above the Great Cloister. It was designed by Thomas Pitt, and has a five recesses with pierced canopies opposite each window, and fan-vaulting throughout. The room is highly decorated, with paintings hung in and around the recesses, and the ribs of the vaulting and canopies painted gold.
Photo credit: © Historic England/Ursula Clark / Bridgeman Images
Image keywords: "house / georgian" / clark / ursula" / "gallery / (secular)" / "gothick" / "gothic / decadent / gold / art" / Photograph / Photography / Mzphoto

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	Dimension [pixels]	Dimension in 300dpi [mm]	File size [MB]
Large	4006 × 5857 px	339 × 496 mm	13.5 MB
Medium	701 × 1024 px	59 × 87 mm	431 KB

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