Adam's Country House Collections Day II - 10th October 2023

57 Country House Collections| 9 th - 10 th October 2023 371 GISBURNE PARK, ‘RULES & ARTICLES TO BE OBSERVED IN THIS HALL’ AN 18TH CENTURY RULES BOARD, Oil on canvas, 105 x 70cm Listing 11 rules and articles to be obeyed by servants at Gisburne Park, with corresponding penalties listed to the right side, and the bottom section inscribed: ‘Here’s a health to Tom Lister of Gisburne Park A Noble Squire of Birth Fame He’s a root, he’s a Branch of the Honorable Name He’s a hero bold , and a heart of Gold. He’s a fool, he’s an ass that refuses his Glass So let his health pass round With all hats on the Ground.’ Provenance Gisburne Park, Yorkshire Gisburne Park was the seat of the Lister Family who acquired the property in 1614. The House as it now stands, was built between 1727 and 1736 by Thomas Lister, M.P. for Clitheroe. The earliest painted view of Gisburne, attributed to Tillemans c.1725 - 1730 is featured in John Harris’ ‘ The Artist and the Country House, from the Fifteenth Century to the Present Day’, No.39 € 4,000 - 6,000