伦敦唐宁街10号财政部大楼：大中室平面图（罗伯特·沃波尔爵士的Levee Room，西北角，一楼） - 美国大都会艺术博物馆展品查阅

品名（中）	伦敦唐宁街10号财政部大楼：大中室平面图（罗伯特·沃波尔爵士的Levee Room，西北角，一楼）
品名（英）	Treasury House, 10 Downing Street, London: Plan of the Great Middle Room (Sir Robert Walpole's Levee Room, Northwest Corner, First Floor)
入馆年号	1925年，25.62.67v
策展部门	绘画和印刷品（Drawings and Prints）
创作者	Isaac Ware【1704 至 1766】【英国人】
创作年份	公元 1732 - 公元 1735
创作地区
分类	图画（Drawings）
尺寸	页: 19 x 25 13/16 英寸 (48.3 x 65.5 厘米)
介绍（中）	这是画册中与财政部有关的八幅图画之一。1732年，乔治二世向第一财政大臣罗伯特·沃尔波尔爵士提供了两处相邻的房产作为伦敦住宅。其中包括一座面向圣詹姆斯公园的16世纪豪宅，以及后面面向唐宁街的联排别墅，后者由克里斯托弗·雷恩爵士于17世纪设计。这个地点毗邻白厅宫，距离议会只有几步之遥，非常适合忙碌的第一部长，沃尔波尔接受了这份礼物，条件是住所必须交给他的继任者，而不是他的继承人。在相邻的一座小屋被腾空并拆除后，William Kent拆除了内部，并将结构统一起来，创建了一个有60个房间的新建筑群。沃波尔和他的妻子于1735年开始居住，并一直居住到1742年（1735年后继续进行额外的工作，如建造面向公园的露台）。1742年沃波尔离任后，他搬出了这所房子，他的图片集被送到了霍顿今天的"10号"仍然是英国首相的官邸，并经历了几次重建运动。沃尔波尔曾与辉格党在议会中的盟友以及乔治一世和乔治二世密切合作，以确保汉诺威的继承权，现在他被认为是现代意义上的第一位首相（尽管他没有这样称呼，因为这个词在19世纪才被普遍使用） Kent作为建筑师和室内设计师的声誉建立在Chiswick House，他于1729年为伯灵顿勋爵完成了该建筑，然后在霍顿大厅（约1725-35年）为罗伯特·沃尔波尔爵士设计了室内设计。这些无疑导致了委员会创建新的财政部。Isaac Ware曾在Houghton担任工程主管，Horace Walpole在其中几幅画上的铭文表明他是绘图员。
介绍（英）	This is one of eight drawings in the album that relate to Treasury House. In 1732 George II offered Sir Robert Walpole, the First Lord of the Treasury two adjacent properties to serve as a London residence. These included a sixteenth-century mansion facing St. James's Park and townhouse behind it fronting onto Downing Street, the latter designed by Sir Christopher Wren in the seventeenth-century. The location next to Whitehall Palace and within walking distance of Parliament suited the busy first minister and Walpole accepted the gift on the condition that the residence pass to subsequent holders of his office, rather than to his heirs. After an adjacent cottage was vacated and torn down, William Kent gutted the interiors and united the structures, creating a new complex of sixty rooms. Walpole and his wife took up residence in 1735 and remained until 1742 (additional work, such as the construction of a terrace facing the park continued after 1735). When Walpole left office in 1742, he vacated the house and his picture collection was sent to Houghton. "Number 10" today remains the the official residence of Britain's Prime Minister and has undergone several subsequent rebuiding campaigns. Walpole, who worked closely with his Whig allies in Parliament, and with George I and II, to secure the Hanoverian succession, is now considered the nation's first Prime Minister in the modern sense (although he was not called that, since the term only came into common use in the nineteenth century). Kent's reputation as an architect and designer of interiors had been established at Chiswick House, which he completed in 1729 for Lord Burlington, then in the interiors designed at Houghton Hall (ca. 1725-35) for Sir Robert Walpole. These undoubtedly led to the commission to create the new Treasury House. Isaac Ware had worked as chief-of-works at Houghton and inscriptions by Horace Walpole on several of these drawings identify him as draftsman.