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The action of acid was used to make a pattern of grooves on a copper printing plate. This image on the printing plate was the reverse of the final image. The grooves were then filled  with ink and the image was transferred onto a blank sheet of paper.<br><br><b>Place</b><br>Houghton Hall is a magnificent country house in Norfolk, built by Sir Robert Walpole, the Prime Minister, in the 1720s and early 1730s. The ornate ceiling shown in this plate matched the grandeur and richness of the rest of the saloon.  In the 1760 edition of Isaac Ware's book it was described as 'forty feet long, forty high and thirty wide; the Hanging is Crimson flower'd Velvet; the Ceiling painted by Kent, who design'd all the Ornaments throughout the House. The chimney-piece is of Black and Gold Marble of which too are the Tables.'<br><br><b>Subject Depicted</b><br>There is a large coving, or concave moulding, between the top of the wall and the highly decorated rectangular area in the centre of the ceiling.","physicalDescription":"Etching of a ceiling","artistMakerPerson":[{"name":{"text":"Isaac Ware","id":"A8969"},"association":{"text":"draughtsman","id":"AAT112172"},"note":""},{"name":{"text":"Isaac Ware","id":"A8969"},"association":{"text":"publisher","id":"AAT25574"},"note":""},{"name":{"text":"Paul Fourdrinier","id":"A8400"},"association":{"text":"printmaker","id":"AAT25164"},"note":""},{"name":{"text":"Kent, William","id":"A8575"},"association":{"text":"designer","id":"AAT25190"},"note":""}],"artistMakerOrganisations":[],"artistMakerPeople":[],"materials":[{"text":"printing ink","id":"AAT187371"},{"text":"paper","id":"x30308"}],"techniques":[{"text":"etching","id":"AAT53241"},{"text":"engraving","id":"AAT53225"}],"materialsAndTechniques":"Etching and engraving","categories":[{"text":"Prints","id":"THES48903"},{"text":"British Galleries","id":"THES48985"},{"text":"Architectural fittings","id":"THES48994"},{"text":"Ornament prints","id":"THES49038"}],"styles":[],"collectionCode":{"text":"PDP","id":"THES48595"},"images":["2006AM0661"],"imageResolution":"high","galleryLocations":[{"current":{"text":"54C (VA)","id":"THES49247"},"free":"","case":"WE","shelf":"","box":"21"}],"partTypes":[[{"text":"print","id":""}]],"contentWarnings":[{"apprise":"","note":""}],"placesOfOrigin":[{"place":{"text":"London","id":"x28980"},"association":{"text":"first published","id":"x46563"},"note":""}],"productionDates":[{"date":{"text":"1735","earliest":"1735-01-01","latest":"1735-12-31"},"association":{"text":"first published","id":"x46563"},"note":""}],"associatedObjects":[],"creditLine":"","dimensions":[{"dimension":"Height","value":"23.6","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"paper","note":""},{"dimension":"Width","value":"28.8","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"paper","note":""}],"dimensionsNote":"Dimensions checked: Measured; 08/08/2000 by AS","marksAndInscriptions":[],"objectHistory":"From a drawing dated 1725. Plate 20 of Isaac Ware, 'The Plans Elevations and Sections; Chimney-pieces and Cielings[sic] of Houghton in Norfolk' The ceiling designed by William Kent (born in Bridlington, East Yorkshire, 1684; died in London, 1748); drawn and published in London by Isaac Ware  (born in 1704, died in London, 1766); etched and engraved by Paul Fourdrinier (active 1720-1758)","historicalContext":"","briefDescription":"William Kent (after), plate 20 from 'The Plans, Elevations, And Sections; Chimney-Pieces, and Cielings [sic] of Houghton in Norfolk. The Seat of the Rt. Honourable Sr. Robert Walpole ...', London 1735.","bibliographicReferences":[{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"(Berlin I) Berlin Staatliche Museen, Katalog der Ornamentstich-Sammlung der Staatlichen Kunstbibliothek Berlin, Berlin and Leipzig, 1936-39, 2331."}],"production":"","productionType":{"text":"","id":""},"contentDescription":"","contentPlaces":[],"associatedPlaces":[],"contentPerson":[],"associatedPerson":[],"contentOrganisations":[],"associatedOrganisations":[],"contentPeople":[],"associatedPeople":[],"contentEvents":[],"associatedEvents":[],"contentOthers":[],"contentConcepts":[],"contentLiteraryRefs":[],"galleryLabels":[{"text":"British Galleries:\r\nWilliam Kent designed the geometric panels of this ceiling to be decorated with luxuriant painted decoration in strong colours. Kent trained as a decorative painter and intended even the corner panels to be painted, although here the engraving gives the effect of modelled plasterwork.","date":{"text":"27/03/2003","earliest":"2003-03-27","latest":"2003-03-27"}}],"partNumbers":["29637:172"],"accessionNumberNum":"29637","accessionNumberPrefix":"","accessionYear":null,"otherNumbers":[],"copyNumber":"","aspects":["WHOLE"],"assets":["2019LP5749","2019LR6472","2019LV2762"],"recordModificationDate":"2025-10-17","recordCreationDate":"2003-04-04","availableToBook":false}}