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Gloucester Westonbirt House Tetbury 1880 COLOR PRINT " FO Morris antique prints colored engravings circa 1880 ANTIQUE COLOR PRINT Title: WESTONBIRT HOUSE Approximate Image Size: 5 X 7 1/2 inches Approximate Overall Size: 8 X 10 1/2 inches Brilliant color print. Printed and engraved by by B. Fawcett, Driffield. This beautiful attractive colour plate originates from and is one of a Series of Picturesque Views of Seats of The Noblemen and Gentlemen of Great Britian and Ireland as presented by F. O. Morris. A greater proportion of the drawings which originated from the publication were by Alexander F. Lydon, and printed from coloured wood-blocks using the Baxter process by Benjamin Fawcett. Published by William Mackenzie, Ludgate Hill, Edinburgh and Dublin CONDITION: Very Good Condition. The colors are brilliant, rich and bright. Reverse side is blank and printed on heavier quality paper. From the old descriptive: WESTONBIRT HOUSE, NEAR TETBURY, GLOUCESTERSHIRE. - HOLFORD. Elnod held Westone, in Langtrew Hundred, in the reign of King Edward the Confessor. - Earl Hugh held it in the reign of King William. --- - The Manor afterwards came to the Crewes, who were a branch of the Crewes of Cheshire. The heiress of the Crewes was married to Sir Richard Holford, Master in Chancery, who was also a branch of the Cheshire family of that name, and it thence came into possession of his descendant and representative, Robert Stayner Holford Esp., by whom the present mansion was erected, from the designs and under the supervision of the late Lewis Vulliany, Esq., Architect, on the site of a smaller house built by his predecessor, in lieu of the old Manor House, which dated from about the time of James the First. - - The lineage of the present family deduces from Sir Richard Holford, Knight, Master in Chancery, A copy of the circa 1880 descriptive, which covers some wonderful landscape history of WESTONBIRT HOUSE and some genealogy information will be included. We do have more than 1 in stock of some of these so the image shown may be a stock photo, so please do contact us with any concerns about condition. We will also let you know if there's any major defect before shipping. ALSO AVAILABLE FOR DOWNLOAD AT HIGH DPI RESOLUTION, PLEASE EMAIL FOR INFO. . Some of the names mentioned on the descriptive are ROBERT HOLFORD - SARAH VANDEPUT - SIR PETER VANDEPUT - PETER HOLFORD - GEORGE PETER HOLFORD - ROBERT STAYNER HOLFORD GENERAL JAMES LINDSAY. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 6026
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