2-798-386 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The great Chatsworth Conservatory - the exterior, from the Italian Terrace, 1844. View of the enormous glasshouse at Chatsworth House in Derbyshire. 'The building itself contains one acre of ground, and is, in plan, of the form of a "trefoil", wholly composed of glass, arranged in the "ridge-and-furrow" plan...The whole of the design, arrangements, and management of this splendid pile are under the direction of Mr. [Joseph] Paxton, head gardener to his Grace the Duke of Devonshire...'. Paxton went on the design the Crystal Palace in Hyde Park. From "Illustrated London News", 1844, Vol V.