- Title:
- Norton Hall, Cheshire: Ground Plan with Designs for a Canal
- Additional Title(s):
- Norton Priory
- Date:
- between 1760 and 1776
- Materials & Techniques:
- Pen and black ink, gray wash, and pen and brown ink on medium, smooth, cream laid paper
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 9 5/8 × 15 inches (24.4 × 38.1 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in pen and brown ink, lower center: "A. Norton Hall.... | B. The Large Sheet of water supplyd | from ye. Well CC. The farmhouse opposite | the great Grime. DD. The two pleasure woods | E. The fountain well supplying by | Pipes the Family at Norton & Bath | in the Wood............... | F. The strict Course of the Canal as limited by the act | G. The course of taking the | canal to ye Hempstones as 1st pro | pos'd by ye act 2 Geo 2nd...which would | avoid the present alterations... | H. The tract the Duke is now aim | ing to go leading thro' Sir Richard's | pleasure woods & Lawns & spring between | the fountain well, Hall & large sheet Well"; in graphite, lower right: "[...]ton Hall"; inscribed on verso in graphite, lower left: "Somerset (3)"
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1975.2.35
- Classification:
- Drawing & Watercolors-Architectural
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- architectural subject | canal | country house | landscape design | Palladian | Plan
- Access:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
Note: The Study Room is open by appointment. Please visit the Study Room page on our website for more details. - Link:
- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:11923
- Export:
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- IIIF Manifest:
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Country Houses in Great Britain - Yale Center for British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 1979-10-10 - 1980-01-29) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]
Country houses in Great Britain., Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 1979, pp. 71-72, no. 55, N6764 Y34 1979 (YCBA) [YCBA]