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Clumber
Clumber House by Samuel Hieronymus Grimm, 1773 (courtesy of the British Library).
Manuscripts and Special Collections, University of Nottingham
Portraits, prints, engravings and photographs of members of the Pelham-Clinton family, Dukes of Newcastle under Lyne and views of Clumber House:
See also:
- University of Nottingham. Art Gallery and Department of Manuscripts and Special Collections, The Newcastles of Clumber: A Pictorial and Documentary History of an Important Nottinghamshire Family, Nottingham, 1992, 47 p.
There are around 179 portraits of Dukes of Newcastle and family members on the National Portrait Gallery website.
There are two sketches of Clumber Hall and Park from the late 18th century by Samuel Hieronymus Grimm at the British Library.
Photographs and illustrations of Clumber can be found on the following websites:
Thoresby Hall
'The Elevation of Thorsby house ... the Seat of the Rt Honble the Marquis of Dorchester' by Colen Campbell, c.1715 (Vitruvius Britannicus, volume I, p.91), Two views of the house available on the ArtUK website, including one by Leonard Knyff (c1705) and paintings of the hall interior by Marie-Louise Roosevelt Pierrepont from the mid-20th century also available on the ArtUK website
A selection of paintings of the house and Pierrepont family members from a ‘Private Collection’ are reproduced in:
- Priestland, P., From Domesday to Dukedom and Beyond: the History of the Pierrepont Family, Radcliffe-on-Trent: Ashbracken, 2010
There are around 49 portraits of members of the Pierrepont family on the National Portrait Gallery website.
Two elevations and a plan of the first Thoresby Hall are included in:
- Campbell, C., Vitruvius Britannicus; or, The British architect, containing the plans, elevations, and sections of the regular buildings, both publick and private in Great Britain, with variety of new designs, Volumes I -III (1715-1725)
There is a sketch view of Thoresby Hall and Park from the late 18th century by Samuel Hieronymus Grimm at the British Library.
Photographs and illustrations of Thoresby Hall can be found on the following websites:
Welbeck Abbey
Welbeck Abbey from the south, c.1680.There are a handful of paintings of Welbeck Abbey on the ArtUK website.
There are 16 sketches of various views of Welbeck Abbey and Park from the late 18th century by Samuel Hieronymus Grimm held by the British Library.
There are around 140 portraits of Dukes and Earls of Portland and other family members on the National Portrait Gallery website.
Photographs and illustrations of Welbeck Abbey can be found on the following websites:
Worksop Manor
Worksop Manor from the south by Samuel and Nathaniel Buck, 1745.Engravings
- The south front of the house by Richard Hall c.1676 in Robert Thoroton’s Antiquities of Nottinghamshire published in 1677
- Samuel and Nathaniel Buck, The North Prospect of Worksop Mannor (1745)
- Samuel and Nathaniel Buck, The South Prospect of Worksop Mannor (1745)
- A Perspective view of Worksop Mannor, a seat of the Duke of Norfolk (1755)
- Thomas Malton the younger, Worksop Manor House, in Nottinghamshire, the seat of the Duke of Norfolk (January 1780)
- J. P. Neale, Worksop Manor, Nottinghamshire (early 19th century)
- Thomas Allom, Worksop Manor, Nottinghamshire (early 19th century)
- John Buckler, The Manor House at Worksop, Nottinghamshire (1813)
Emma Wilmott produced drawings of the demolition of the second Worksop Manor in 1842-3:
- Gaunt, R. A. (editor), Emma's Sketchbook: scenes of Nottinghamshire life in the 1840s, Nottinghamshire County Council (2013)
Photographs and illustrations of Worksop Manor can be found on the following websites:
A good selection of images of both the house and the park is included in Michael Tagg’s report, Unregistered Park & Garden: Worksop Manor, available from the Bassetlaw District Council website.
There are around 275 portraits of Dukes and Duchesses of Norfolk and other family members on the National Portrait Gallery website.