num_pages: 320
description: In this lavishly illustrated book, Christopher Christie explores the British country house during the period 1700-1830 and looks at the lives of both the noblemen and the servants who inhabited them. Christie's clear and thoughtful analysis provides insight into many different the role and rank of family and servants, furniture, landscape, architecture, painting, sculpture, style, food, and entertainment.
language: English
title: British Country House in the Eighteenth Century
publisher: Manchester University Press