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Front Cover, Morris, Picturesque ViewsPicturesque Views of Seats of the Noblemen and Gentlemen of Great Britain and Ireland Vol 1 (1870)

The front cover of the book is dark red with gold inlay. Unfortunately the book has warped, possibly from water damage, and will not sit flat on the scanner.

Keywords: book covers, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2007-04-20

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Photograph of the BookPicturesque Views of Seats of the Noblemen and Gentlemen of Great Britain and Ireland Vol 1 (1870)

A photograph of the “Picturesque Views” book showing the red moroccan leather cover and the gold tooling. In the background are some other antique books, and a brown leather-bound antiquarian book fr [...]

Keywords: pictures of books, books, wallpaper, backgrounds, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2007-06-10

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Windsor Castle, The Royal ResidencePicturesque Views of Seats of the Noblemen and Gentlemen of Great Britain and Ireland Vol 1 (1870)

The history of Windsor Castle is the history of England and of England’s Kings and Queens. [...] The building is worthy of England, and of the long and illustrious line of monarchs who have sat upon o [...]

Keywords: castles, towers, buildings, water, boats, flags, views, wallpaper, backgrounds, colour

Places shown: Windsor; Berkshire; England

Added: 2009-11-18

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Wilton HousePicturesque Views of Seats of the Noblemen and Gentlemen of Great Britain and Ireland Vol 1 (1870)

It was hard to do justice to the delicate colours of this 8-colour printed plate of Wilton House in Wiltshire. WILTON HOUSE, WILTON, WILTSHIRE.—EARL OF PEMBROKE AND MONTGOMERY. Wilton House is an impo [...]

Keywords: manors, houses, buildings, trees, water, colour

Places shown: Wilton; Wiltshire; England

Added: 2007-02-10

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Howsham Hall.Picturesque Views of Seats of the Noblemen and Gentlemen of Great Britain and Ireland Vol 1 (1870)

A man on a horse, with a gun and hunting-dogs, approaching a country manor-house over snow. It looks like a storm is coming. There are ancient trees here. The text accompanying this is as follows: H [...]

Keywords: manors, buildings, snow, people, trees, dogs, winter, colour, christmas

Places shown: Malton; Yorkshire; England

Added: 2007-02-15

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Picton Castle. – Pembrokeshire.Picturesque Views of Seats of the Noblemen and Gentlemen of Great Britain and Ireland Vol 1 (1870)

A splendid and ancient Welsh castle dating back a thousand years, and still inhabited today. PICTON CASTLE, NEAR HAVERFORDWEST, PEMBROKESHIRE.—PHILLIPS. Frequently, as will be seen, as this ancient m [...]

Keywords: castles, manors, buildings, towers, grass, windows, colour

Places shown: Picton; Haverfordwest; Pembrokeshire; Wales

Added: 2013-02-26

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Eaton Hall.—Duke of WestminsterPicturesque Views of Seats of the Noblemen and Gentlemen of Great Britain and Ireland Vol 1 (1870)

The picture shows a man and a woman, the woman with a long crinoline domed skirt (shaped like a dalek), the man with a cane pointing at a small dog; they are walking on a smooth lawn with an insanely [...]

Keywords: manors, houses, gothic architecture, colour, people, spires, windows, grass, sky

Places shown: Eaton; Chester; Cheshire; England

Added: 2021-02-15

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Warwick Castle.—Earl of WarwickPicturesque Views of Seats of the Noblemen and Gentlemen of Great Britain and Ireland Vol 1 (1870)

A splendid view of Warwick Castle, printed in colour. The text reads as follows: WARWICK CASTLE, NEAR WARWICK, WARWICKSHIRE.—EARL OF WARWICK. Cymbeline, King of Britain, is by some supposed to have bu [...]

Keywords: castles, buildings, water, trees, colour, boats, people, colour

Places shown: Warwick; Warwickshire; England

Added: 2007-02-08

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Chatsworth.Picturesque Views of Seats of the Noblemen and Gentlemen of Great Britain and Ireland Vol 1 (1870)

CHATSWORTH. near Bakewell, Derbyshire.—Duke of Devonshire. The situation of Chatsworth is exceedingly beautiful, in the romantic part of Derbyshire which Sir Walter Scott has celebrated in “Peveril o [...]

Keywords: manors, stately homes, exteriors, views, parks, deer, animals, people, trees, palaces, colour

Places shown: Chatsworth; Bakewell; Derbyshire; England

Added: 2018-03-27

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Guy’s Cliffe.Picturesque Views of Seats of the Noblemen and Gentlemen of Great Britain and Ireland Vol 1 (1870)

A strikingly beautiful manor house, with the moat in the foreground; today it lies in ruins. There are several other pictures of the same site; see the Location link. I have included a 1680x1050 pix [...]

Keywords: manors, stately homes, exteriors, parks, buildings, colour, water, trees, colour

Places shown: Guy’s Cliffe; Warwick; Warwickshire; England

Added: 2007-06-16

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Charlecote.Picturesque Views of Seats of the Noblemen and Gentlemen of Great Britain and Ireland Vol 1 (1870)

Today, Charlecote Park is run by the National Trust; it is described there are a 16th century manor, although there had probably been a house there for some five hundred or more years. This picture, m [...]

Keywords: manors, buildings, houses, tudor architecture, arches, windows, clocks, colour

Places shown: Wellesbourne; Stratford-on-Avon; Warwickshire; England

Added: 2009-12-04

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Wentworth Woodhouse.Picturesque Views of Seats of the Noblemen and Gentlemen of Great Britain and Ireland Vol 1 (1870)

WENTWORTH HOUSENear Rotherham, Yorkshire. Earl FitzWilliam. This grand seat of one of our greatest English families, is most beautifully situated in the West-Riding of Yorkshire, four miles from “Fair [...]

Keywords: manors, houses, buildings, trees, colour, deer, windows, wallpaper, backgrounds, widescreen

Places shown: Rotherham; Yorkshire; England

Added: 2013-12-31

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Alton Towers.Picturesque Views of Seats of the Noblemen and Gentlemen of Great Britain and Ireland Vol 1 (1870)

Aother beautiful manor house or castle, with lots of towers and turrets. This picture is suitable for use as a computer desktop background image (wallpaper, root window picture) on a widescreen (8:5) [...]

Keywords: manors, castles, towers, turrets, trees, colour, wallpaper, backgrounds, widescreen

Places shown: Alton Towers; Staffordshire; England

Added: 2009-02-22

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Alton Towers (4:3 wallpaper version)Picturesque Views of Seats of the Noblemen and Gentlemen of Great Britain and Ireland Vol 1 (1870)

A version of the Alton Towers picture cropped slightly to make it fit on a 1600x1200, 1024x768 or similar compute screen.

Keywords: manors, castles, towers, turrets, trees, colour, wallpaper, backgrounds, widescreen

Places shown: Alton Towers; Staffordshire; England

Added: 2009-02-22

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Newstead AbbeyPicturesque Views of Seats of the Noblemen and Gentlemen of Great Britain and Ireland Vol 1 (1870)

A partly-ruined romantic gothic mansion beside a lake with a fountain. NEWSTEAD ABBEY. NEAR MANSFIELD, NOTTINGHAMSHIRE.—WEBB. Newstead Abbey, “one of the finest specimens in existence of those quaint [...]

Keywords: manors, castles, houses, buildings, lakes, water, windows, trees, colour

Places shown: Newstead; Nottinghamshire; England

Added: 2015-07-04

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Whitley CourtPicturesque Views of Seats of the Noblemen and Gentlemen of Great Britain and Ireland Vol 1 (1870)

Witley Court was badly damaged by a fire in 1937, some 60 years after this picture was made. The description in the book tries hard, i think, to hide the writer’s disdain for the self-made. WHITLEY CO [...]

Keywords: manors, stately homes, victorian excess, opunlence, columns, houses, parks, colour

Places shown: Witley Court; Great Witley; Worcestershire; England

Added: 2020-11-01

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