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is a broad corridor giving access to the various rooms, which are 

 of fine dimensions. The same disposition appears to apply to 

 all three floors, save that on the topmost the corridor is omitted, 

 and thus an open space is provided which gives light to the 

 hall on one side and to a passage on the other, which is taken 

 off the width of the rooms. There is no indication where the 

 kitchens lie ; the section shows no basement, and there are no 

 indications of separate wings. 



The section gives an adequate idea of the internal treatment ; 

 it shows the great hall and its lighting, as well as the very simple 

 decoration of the rooms, far plainer in this case than in most of 

 those published in his book. The rooms are usually panelled 

 somewhat after the manner shown in Figs. 166 and 167. This 

 gives an air of distinction to them, but it severely limits (and 

 perhaps not unhappily) the number of pictures and prints which 

 can be hung on the walls. A very similar treatment is applied 

 to the staircases (Fig. 168). In one instance the walls were 

 apparently, to be painted with an architectural composition, 

 which introduces a touch of poetry into the practical prose of 

 Gibbs's ordinary handling (Fig. 169). There is a house in Dean 

 Street, Soho (Fig. 171), where the staircase walls are decorated 

 with figure subjects by Hogarth, somewhat after the fashion of 

 Gibbs's drawing, but more elaborate in design. The decoration of 

 the rooms already illustrated includes in each case the chimney- 

 piece, but a further example, to a larger scale (Fig. 170), will serve 

 to show the kind of design which was widely adopted, not only 

 by Gibbs but by most architects during the first half of the 

 eighteenth century. 



Campbell was also a practising architect as well as an 

 illustrator of the art, and he was consulted in the erection of 

 Houghton Hall, in Norfolk, which is one of the finest examples 

 of the great houses of its period, a period when nobles and 

 wealthy gentlemen were vying with one another in building fine 

 homes in the fashionable Italian manner, and surrounding them 

 with equally fine gardens. It was the celebrated Prime Minister, 

 Sir Robert Walpole, who built Houghton ; and Colin Campbell 

 supplied him with the design in the year I722. 1 It would 

 appear, however, that Campbell did not carry out the work 

 himself, but that his designs were handed over to Ripley, who 

 altered them in many respects while following the general idea 



1 " Vitruvius Britannicus," iii , pi. 27-34. 



