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Pictures from English Ancestral Homes of Noted Americans by Anne Hollingsworth Wharton, Philadelphia and London, J. B. Lippincott and Company, MCMXV [1915].
Anne Hollingsworth Wharton was born on 15th December 1845 and died on 29th July 1928, more than 70 years ago, so that this work is out of copyright. She was a descendent of Joseph Wharton and hence related to Thomas Wharton Jr. (1735-1778), the first President of Pennsylvania.
Title: Ancestral Homes of Noted Americans
City: London
Date: 1915
Total items: 12
Out of copyright (called public domain in the USA), hence royalty-free for all purposes usage credit requested, or as marked.
![[picture: Sulgrave Manor]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Wharton/wm/big/00-Sulgrave-Manor-310x200.jpg "[picture: Sulgrave Manor]")
![[picture: Prison Cells (wallpaper version)]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Wharton/wm/big/046b-Prison-Cells-bg-q75-267x200.jpg "[picture: Prison Cells (wallpaper version)]")
Prison Cells (wallpaper version)
A version of Prison Cells... for use as a computer desktop background image (root wallpaper or whatever you call it on your system). I cropped the image and increased the contrast to make it more atmospheric. [more...] [$]
![[picture: Church of St.Mary, Redcliffe(bg)]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Wharton/wm/big/210-Church-of-St-Mary-Redcliffe-Bristol-bg-q82-267x200.jpg "[picture: Church of St.Mary, Redcliffe(bg)]")
Church of St.Mary, Redcliffe(bg)
Version cropped for use as a wallpaper (screen background for computer desktop) [$]
![[picture: Baronial hall, Penshurst Place]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Wharton/wm/big/151-BaronialHall-293x200.jpg "[picture: Baronial hall, Penshurst Place]")
Baronial hall, Penshurst Place
“On the left are the buttery and the kitchens and, separated from the stone passage by a screen of carved oak panels, is the Great Hall, the glory and wonder of the castle, with its open timber roof, its minstrels’ gallery, its “dais” reaching across the end of the hall, on which was placed the table for the Lord of the Manor and his guests. The [...] [more...] [$]
![[picture: Austerfield Church]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Wharton/wm/big/046a-Austerfield-Church-q75-327x200.jpg "[picture: Austerfield Church]")
“Austerfield is a typical north country village. Less picturesque than such midland and southern hamlets as Brington, Ecton and Penshurst, these northern villages, with their steep-roofed, narrow-gabled houses of brick and stone, substantial, and built to keep out the winter storms, which are severe in this part of England, with no attempt at ornament, [...] [more...] [$]
Pictures from English Ancestral Homes of Noted Americans by Anne Hollingsworth Wharton, Philadelphia and London, J. B. Lippincott and Company, MCMXV [1915].
Anne Hollingsworth Wharton was born on 15th December 1845 and died on 29th July 1928, more than 70 years ago, so that this work is out of copyright. She was a descendent of Joseph Wharton and hence related to Thomas Wharton Jr. (1735-1778), the first President of Pennsylvania.
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