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Illustrations

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The following illustrations seek to show stately homes at their maximum expanses, in approximate descending order of size:

Portrait Name County; Date of design; Patron
Chatsworth House

Derbyshire; 1687; William Cavendish, 1st Duke of Devonshire

Blenheim Palace Oxfordshire; 1705; Queen Anne for John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough
Longleat House Wiltshire; c.1570; Sir John Thynne (d.1580)
Castle Howard N. Yorkshire; 1699; Charles Howard, 3rd Earl of Carlisle
Wentworth Woodhouse S. Yorkshire; 1723; Thomas Watson-Wentworth, 1st Marquess of Rockingham
Kedleston Hall Derbyshire; 1759; Sir Nathaniel Curzon (later 1st Baron Scarsdale)
Wilton House Wiltshire; 1630; Philip Herbert, 4th Earl of Pembroke
Petworth House West Sussex; 1688; Charles Seymour, 6th Duke of Somerset. (Altered in 1870's)
Holkham Hall Norfolk; 1732; Thomas Coke, later 1st Earl of Leicester(d.1759)
Woburn Abbey Bedfordshire; 1744; John Russell, 4th Duke of Bedford
Seaton Delaval Hall Northumberland; 1718; Admiral George Delaval

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