Red Book for Lathom House, Lancashire

Item author: Humphrey Repton
Item date: 1792
Grant Value: 2,062
Item cost: $75,000
Item cost pre-decimal: NULL
Item date acquired: 2004
Item institution: Lancashire Record Office
Town/City: Preston
County: Lancashire

The Red Book contains four watercolour sketches with overlays, a ground plan of the estate and drawings for a proposed dairy in the Gothic style, as well as a commentary by Repton on his proposals.

Item Provenance
Bootle-Wilbraham family, Earls of Lathom; Sotheby's, New York, 18 June 2004