Designs for rebuilding Mere Hall, Cheshire

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