Follaton House, seat of Stanley Carey Esq. (1827)
Rudolf Ackermann
| Repository | Library | Shelf |
|---|---|---|
| Devon | West Country Studies | M SC3383 |
Illustration Reference
SC3383
Location
CD 50 DVD 8
Publication Details
Scope and Content
Hoskins, W. G. Devon. London: Collins, 1954. pp. 277-8.More space, more light everywhere, more pleasant things for the eye to dwell upon: such were the new houses, set in their peaceful parks among the folds and trees of lovely Devon. These are the real architectural treasures of the county, reflecting more faithfully than anything else the kind of society and culture that had its being here, remote and withdrawn in the far south-west of England. The cold, ordered, sophisticated mansions of the 18th century - the Castle Hills, the Bictons, and the Saltrams - do not move us half as much as these smaller houses, lost among the lanes, among the pigeon-haunted trees at the end of decaying avenues of walnuts or beeches, or mourned over by desolate cypresses in the soft Devonshire rain. [
]The early 19th century saw a great deal of building. Kitley, an Elizabethan house already Georgianised was remodelled about 1820 by G. S. Repton, who was also responsible for the new Follaton, near Totnes.[Text may be taken from a different source or edition than that listed as the source by Somers Cocks.]
Embellishment
col
Format
Aquatint
Dimensions
113x186mm
Note
Repository of Arts no. 56
Aspects
Exterior
Counties
Subjects
Dates
1827