Waddesdon Manor, Buckinghamshire: the Rocco style trelliswork pergola with an eighteenth century sculpture ascribed to Giovanni Baratta in the background Architect/Designer Baratta, Giovanni (1670-1747) Artist/Photographer Smith, Edwin (1912-1971) Country UK: England City Waddesdon Subject Date 1880 Image Date 1966 View Exterior Medium Photoprint Library Reference ESP/ENG/4688 (ES3050.6) Orientation Portrait Colour Info Black and white Credit Edwin Smith / RIBA Collections Subject Country houses ; Garden buildings ; Cast iron ; Decorative ironwork
NOTES: This manor was built in French-Renaissance style by Baron Ferdinand de Rothschild in 1874-1880 to display his collection of art treasures and as a place to entertain his fashionable and influential friends. Designed by Gabriel Hippolyte Destailleur, it is the last complete example of 'le style Rothschild' outside Frankfurt.
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