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HOUGHTON HALL, NORFOLK 



FIG. 175. Houghton. The Marble Dining-Room. 



balustrade (Fig. 178), and the walls are decorated with figures 

 and subjects in monochrome, by the hand of Kent himself. Sir 

 Robert is said by Walpole, in his " Anecdotes of Painting," to- 

 have purposely restricted the artist to this vehicle, having lively 

 misgivings as to Kent's exploits in brighter and more varied 

 pigments. 



Another of the imposing houses of the eighteenth century 

 is Wentworth Woodhouse, in Yorkshire, a seat of the Earl 



