A presentation album of drawings by Samuel Wyatt (1737-1807), in their original binding, for a proposed rebuilding of Mere Hall, Cheshire. The house had been rebuilt in 1670 for Sir Peter Brooke, whose descendant Peter Brooke (1723-83) married an heiress. It is likely that his son and heir Jonas Brooke (1753-84) commissioned these new rebuilding proposals from Wyatt shortly before his departure on the Grand Tour in 1783. The plans were abandoned when he died of a fever in 1784. The existing house was remodelled by Wyatt's nephew Lewis in 1813, and was occupied by the Brooke family until 1994, when its contents were dispersed
Item Provenance
The Brooke Family of Mere Hall until 1994; Henry Potts Architectural Designs and Drawings, Chillingham, Northumberland