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The Cassiobury Collection
The Earls of Essex, their wives and children at Cassiobury House
Cassiobury House
View of the South-West Front of Cassiobury House
JMW Turner
c.1806-7
John Britton's History and Description of Cassiobury Park, first published in 1817, documents the development of Cassiobury House into a fashionable neo-Gothic mansion. A later edition of the book, from 1837, incorporates engravings and aquatints from paintings by such artists as Augustus Pugin, JMW Turner, Henry Edridge and William Henry Hunt, all of whom were friends of the George Capel Coningsby, the 5th Earl.