Delaval

What Nikolaus Pevsner called "one of the most perfect buildings ever built" was recently restored and houses the tourist office and a display of maritime industry.01553 763044John Vanbrugh's last country house, and for many his finest work, Seaton Delaval was unfinished at the time of his death.

Baroque architecture in Britain: examples from the era 2011

His Seaton Delaval, recently saved for the nation, is a wonder.

Baroque architecture in Britain: examples from the era 2011

The grounds house a mausoleum for a Delaval who supposedly died after being kicked in a "vital organ" by a laundry maid.0191-237 9100Legend has it that when Thomas Archer asked Queen Anne what the new church in London's Smith Square should look like, she kicked over her stool and snapped, "Like that!"

Baroque architecture in Britain: examples from the era 2011

Benjamin Franklin heard a performance on a set of musical glasses in Cambridge by Edmund Delaval — probably in 1761 — and decided to invent a more ‘convenient arrangement’.

The Story of the Glass Armonica | Impact Lab 2007

Sotheby's will auction a pair of Queen Anne giltwood wall mirrors, circa 1715, from the Seaton Delaval Hall collection (estimate: £40,000-£60,000), as well as a circa-1755, George III giltwood and marble table (estimate: £7,000-£10,000).

Estate Sales in Store for France, U.K. 2009

The auction house will also feature a collection from Seaton Delaval Hall in Northumberland, the private apartments of the late 22nd Lord Hastings.

Estate Sales in Store for France, U.K. 2009

Recherches expérimentalessur la cause des changemens de couleurs dans les corps opaques et naturellement colorés, ouvrage traduiut de l'anglois de Mr. Edward Hussey Delaval ... par M. Quatremère Dijonval ....

The Creation of Color in Eighteenth-Century Europe 2006

The calculation may be related to Edward Hussey Delaval's work on this subject, read at the Royal Society of London in January 1765 and published as a pamphlet later that year. 6 In that paper, Delaval related color to density, as specific gravity, suggesting that greater density should reflect the more refrangible rays. reference

The Creation of Color in Eighteenth-Century Europe 2006

I have made Delaval promise to send me some Brazil tobacco from Portugal for you, Madam Dingley.

The Journal to Stella 2003

This morning Delaval came to see me, and we went together to

The Journal to Stella 2003