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Ibbetson at Kenwood

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Ibbetson at Kenwood During the 1790s, Julius Caesar Ibbetson was ‘employed by the late Lord Mansfield, to make designs for the embellishment of a magnificent apartment at Caen Wood.’, which you can see here . The designs’ appearance were neatly summarised by Norris J. Brewer in 1816:    … various operations of agriculture, fancifully represented… interspersed are views in North Wales, delicately executed.   View of Caernarvon Castle J. Ibbetson,  1794–1797   Oil on Paper Photo credit: Historic England Archive With the vocabulary of the picturesque as a guide, viewing had become a form of leisure, and visitors to the room would have been treated to their own mini version of Ibbetson’s 1792 tour of Wales, without having to stray too far from London.   The Bardic Museum, of primitive British Literature . By Edward Jones.  London: Printed by A. Strahan, Printer-Street, for the Author; 1802. (Price 1/. 5s.) Entered at Stationer's Hall. With