[32] Mostly preserved at Chatsworth; there are also a few at the British Museum.
[33] It has not been found possible to illustrate this scene, as was intended, owing to the war having rendered the drawings at Chatsworth inaccessible for the time being.
[34] “Cal. State Papers, Domestic,” xcv. 12.
[35] Horace Walpole’s “Anecdotes of Painting.”
[36] See the article on the Burlington-Devonshire Drawings in the Journal of the Royal Institute of British Architects, Third Series, vol. xviii., No. 10.
[37] Vol. vi. p. 129, printed in full in Peter Cunningham’s “Life of Inigo Jones,” p. 48.
[38] “The Designs for the First Movable Scenery on the English Public Stage,” by William Grant Keith, in The Burlington Magazine, Nos. cxxxiii. and cxxxiv., April and May 1914, where reproductions of Webb’s drawings are given.
[39] “Thorpe Hall,” by A. W. Hakewill, 1852.
[40] Neal, in his “Seats,” says it was designed by Webb; and although he quotes no authority he must have had some reason for the statement.
[41] Willis and Clarke’s “Architectural History of the University of Cambridge,” ii. 366.