Kate Retford is Senior Lecturer in History of Art, Birkbeck College, University of London, UK. Susanna Avery-Quash is Senior Research Curator (History of Collecting), The National Gallery London, UK.

• Preface Sir Nicholas Penny AcknowledgementsMap: Locations of the Principal Georgian London town houses Discussedin this book List of illustrations Introduction Kate Retford Part One: Architecture, Furnishing, Decorating1. A House Divided: Building Biographies and the Town House in Georgian London, Matthew Jenkins and Charlotte Newman2. ‘You never saw such a scene of magnificence and taste’: Norfolk House after its Grand Reopening in 1756, Jeremy Howard3. The Refurbishment of Northumberland House: Craftsmen and Interior Decoration in Mid-Eighteenth-Century London Town Houses, Adriano Aymonino and Manolo Guerci 4. Town and Country: The Spencers of Althorp, Joseph Friedman5. The Regency Transformation of Burlington House, Piccadilly: The Architectural Drawings of Samuel Ware in the Royal Academy of Arts, Neil BinghamPart Two: Buying, Collecting, Display6. The Display and Reception of Private Picture Collections in London Town Houses, 1780–1830, Susannah Homer7. Superb Cabinets or Splendid Anachronisms? Anatomy, Natural History and Fine Arts in the London Town House, Helen McCormack8. Artist in Residence: Joshua Reynolds at No 47, Leicester Fields, Donato Esposito9. The Pictures at Carlton House, Desmond Shawe Taylor10. Glitter and fashion in the ‘Louvre of London’: Animating Cleveland House, Anne Nellis Richter11. John Julius Angerstein and the Development of his Art Collection at No 100, Pall Mall, London, Susanna Avery-QuashAfterword Joseph Friedman and Susanna Avery-Quash Select Bibliography Picture credits Index

“Visually thrilling and engaging throughout, this collection makes a timely intervention in several fields, and will probably become a cornerstone text for scholars working across architectural history, material culture, social history, history of collecting and art history. Signposting archival and museum resources alongside compelling methodological frameworks, The Georgian London Town House issues a rallying cry for future scholarship and proposes exciting and myriad ways in which we might look to reanimate these previously obscured worlds.”