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Petworth

Christopher Rowell

  • Categories: Architecture, Heritage, Homes & gardens
ISBN: 978 0 70780 420 0
Size: 274 x 196 mm / 7.75 x 10.75 in.
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 128
Images: 100
Date published: August, 2012
UK £12.99

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  • A comprehensive and informative series exploring some of the National Trust’s most prestigious properties
  • Visually stunning, with photography from the National Trust’s own picture library

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Petworth explores the history of a great house, its collection, surrounding estate and the contribution made to British history by its illustrious owners. From the Middle Ages Petworth was part of a landed empire stretching from West Sussex to Northumberland. It has been lived in by successive generations of Percys, Seymours and Wyndhams, who have played a prominent role on the national stage, as well as being prolific collectors and patrons. The estate was given to the National Trust in 1947 by Charles Wyndham, 3rd Lord Leconfield, and is still lived in by his great-nephew, Lord Egremont, and his family.

After 1688, Petworth was transformed from medieval castle to Baroque palace, and the master-carver Grinling Gibbons was commissioned to create what is now recognised as his masterpiece, the famous Carved Room. Its picture collection was founded in the reign of Charles I, and together with antique and modern sculpture, represents the National Trust’s largest gathering of fine art. As well as numerous portraits by Van Dyck, landscapes by Turner, Old Masters and British pictures, Petworth displays superb 18th-century London-made and Continental furniture, including a remarkable commode (chest-of-drawers) by Louis XIV’s royal cabinetmaker, André-Charles Boulle. Petworth House is set within a historic park, laid out by Lancelot ‘Capability’ Brown in 1753–65, and immortalised in the landscape paintings of J.M.W. Turner, who was a regular guest of the 3rd Earl of Egremont in the 1820s and 1830s.

This book is part of a series of guides published for the National Trust, featuring some of its most important, popular and prestigious properties. With stunning new photography and authoritative texts, these titles explore and celebrate the art, architecture and history of some of the National Trust’s greatest sites.

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