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Frontispiece: Alnwick CastlePicturesque Views of Seats of the Noblemen and Gentlemen of Great Britain and Ireland Vol 2 (1870)

A colour engraving, printed using multiple plates (or stones) each engraved for a different colour. We see in the foreground a stone bridge over a river, with a tomb of, or monument to, a dog on it. T [...]

Keywords: towers, castles, bridges, battlements, turrets, trees, parks, people, fishing, stately homes, manors, buildings, exteriors, colour

Places shown: Alnwick; Northumberland; England

Added: 2023-02-24

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Front Cover, Morris, Picturesque ViewsPicturesque Views of Seats of the Noblemen and Gentlemen of Great Britain and Ireland Vol 2 (1870)

The front cover of the book is dark red with gold inlay. This is actually the cover of Volume One, which looks the same sexcept that Volume Two is in better condition.

Keywords: book covers, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2023-02-24

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Taymouth CastlePicturesque Views of Seats of the Noblemen and Gentlemen of Great Britain and Ireland Vol 2 (1870)

TAYMOUTH CASTLE Near Aberfeldy, Perthshire,—Marquis of Breadalbane. This magnificent seat may well carry us back in thought to the feudal times, and even in them it would have been conspicuous for siz [...]

Keywords: stately homes, castles, mountains, forests, trees, windows, towers, battlements, lawns, turrets, manors, colour

Places shown: Kenmore; Perthshire; Scotland

Added: 2024-12-23

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Cholmondeley CastlePicturesque Views of Seats of the Noblemen and Gentlemen of Great Britain and Ireland Vol 2 (1870)

The first thing to say about this castle is that it’s pronounced Chumley. Really. The picture, in colour, shows the “castle” that was mostly built in the early part of the 19th Century, replacing an o [...]

Keywords: stately homes, castles, windows, towers, battlements, creeper, ivy, lawns, trees, turrets, colour

Places shown: Cholmondeley; Malpas; Cheshire; England

Added: 2023-02-24

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Mount EdgcombePicturesque Views of Seats of the Noblemen and Gentlemen of Great Britain and Ireland Vol 2 (1870)

Mount Edgcombe House was built in the middle of the sixteenth century, but it was badly damaged by bombs in World War II. In 1971 the (then) Earl sold the new-ly-restored estate to the county council, [...]

Keywords: stately homes, castles, windows, towers, battlements, creeper, ivy, lawns, trees, turrets, colour

Places shown: Mount Edgcumbe House and Country Park; Cremyll; Torpoint; Cornwall; England

Added: 2025-04-12

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