The British Country House in the Eighteenth Century

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Manchester University Press, 2000 - Architecture - 333 pages
This work explores the British country house during the period 1700-1830 and looks at the lives of both the noblemen and the servants who inhabited them. It provides insight into many different areas: the role and rank of family and sevants, furniture, landscape, architecture, painting, scultpture, style, food and entertainment are all discussed and allow him to invoke a sense of 18th-century life as it was experienced by the inhabitants of these homes. Reference is made to the whole of the British Isles and there is a discussion of the political significance of the country house in the Georgian period.
 

Contents

Section 1
12
Section 2
42
Section 3
48
Section 4
52
Section 5
57
Section 6
70
Section 7
84
Section 8
133
Section 13
185
Section 14
190
Section 15
202
Section 16
204
Section 17
240
Section 18
244
Section 19
247
Section 20
251

Section 9
135
Section 10
145
Section 11
149
Section 12
167
Section 21
266
Section 22
284
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