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Waddesdon Manor, Buckinghamshire: the Rocco style trelliswork pergola with an eighteenth century sculpture ascribed to Giovanni Baratta in the background

RIBA Ref No RIBA5366
Architect/DesignerBaratta, Giovanni (1670-1747)
Artist/PhotographerSmith, Edwin (1912-1971)
CountryUK: England
CityWaddesdon
Subject Date1880
Image Date1966
ViewExterior
MediumPhotoprint
Library ReferenceESP/ENG/4688 (ES3050.6)
OrientationPortrait
Colour InfoBlack and white
CreditEdwin Smith / RIBA Collections
SubjectCountry 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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