Marble Hill House
The villa Marble Hill House is located southwest of London on the banks of the Thames , in the borough of Richmond upon Thames and was 1724 to 1729 for Lady Henrietta Howard (1688-1767), later Countess of Suffolk, the lover of British King George II. , In Palladian style. A later resident was Maria Fitzherbert , the secret wife of the Prince of Wales and later King George IV.
The designs for Marble Hill House came from Colen Campbell , who was based on both Andrea Palladio - famous Italian architect of the 16th century - and his English predecessor Inigo Jones . The builder was Roger Morris . The royal gardener Charles Bridgemann and the poet Alexander Pope were commissioned to lay out the gardens (2.67 km²) .
English Heritage ( Historic Buildings and Monuments Commission for England ) carefully restored the villa in the 20th century . In the meantime, parts of the original furnishings, which were believed to be lost, have now been found again, including Giovanni Paolo Pannini's cycle of paintings with Views of Ancient Rome (1738), which is now back in its former location in the Great Room.
The Ham House on the opposite bank of the river can be reached with the Hammerton's Ferry .
Trivia
The Marble Hill House served the architect Georg Wenzeslaus von Knobelsdorff in 1750 as a motif for his Knobelsdorff or Lehmannsches house on the Alter Markt in Potsdam.
literature
- Greater London Council: Marble Hill House and Its Owners , Greater London Council (1970) ISBN 0-7168-0278-3
- Julius Bryant and Susannah Lawson (Eds.): Marble Hill , English Heritage (2005) ISBN 1-8507-4730-X
Web links
- The Marble Hill Society. The Marble Hill Society, archived from the original on December 10, 2015 ; accessed on December 10, 2015 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Friedrich Mielke, Das Bürgerhaus in Potsdam, 1972 (reconstruction list)
Coordinates: 51 ° 26 ′ 58 " N , 0 ° 18 ′ 48" W.