# Exterior view

[View the canonical artwork record](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/paxton-joseph-r6bb2701058bfb2/exterior-view-r9fc467a2f2418d>)

## Artwork

- Artist: [PAXTON, Joseph](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/paxton-joseph-r6bb2701058bfb2>)
- Date: 1801-1850
- Technique: Photo

## Commentary

In 1850, Paxton was commissioned by Baron Mayer de Rothschild to design Mentmore Towers in Buckinghamshire. This was to be one of the greatest country houses built during the Victorian Era. Following the completion of Mentmore, Baron James de Rothschild, one of Baron de Rothschild&#39;s French cousins, commissioned Château de Ferrières at Ferrières-en-Brie near Paris to be &#34;Another Mentmore, but twice the size&#34;. Both buildings still stand today.

## Related artworks

- [Distant view](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/paxton-joseph-r6bb2701058bfb2/distant-view-rc6fdc47278c76f>)
- [Exterior view](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/paxton-joseph-r6bb2701058bfb2/exterior-view-r03a6cb10785439>)
- [Exterior view](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/paxton-joseph-r6bb2701058bfb2/exterior-view-r8e43eee2fd102d>)
- [Exterior view](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/paxton-joseph-r6bb2701058bfb2/exterior-view-ra27abfe090c2c6>)
- [Exterior view](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/paxton-joseph-r6bb2701058bfb2/exterior-view-rafc452e43b9ec5>)
- [Exterior view](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/paxton-joseph-r6bb2701058bfb2/exterior-view-rbe201588198c16>)
- [Exterior view](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/paxton-joseph-r6bb2701058bfb2/exterior-view-rf80f8ac599f95f>)
- [General view](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/paxton-joseph-r6bb2701058bfb2/general-view-rb811ce926adbbb>)

## Attribution

[Web Gallery of Art](<https://beta.wga.hu/pages/about>)