Country House Collections
Their lives and afterlives
Country houses have been defined by their contents as much
as by their architecture, landscapes and the families who
occupied them. They have boasted assemblies ranging from
antiquities, paintings, decorative arts, books and
manuscripts, to antiquarian, ethnographic and scientific
collections....Country houses have been defined by their contents as much
as by their architecture, landscapes and the families who
occupied them. They...
Author/Editor: Terence Dooley & Christopher Ridgway, editors