FO Morris antique prints colored engravings
circa 1870s ANTIQUE COLOR PRINT
Title: APPLEBY CASTLE
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: Excellent Condition. The colors are brilliant, rich and bright. Reverse side is blank and printed on heavier quality paper.
Excerpt from the old descriptive: APPLEBY CASTLE, NEAR APPLEBY, WESTMORELAND. - TUFTON, BARONET.
This edifice is generally believed to have been founded previous to the Norman Conquest, but was in all probability rebuilt shortly subsequent to that period, and again progressively re-edified by successive noble proprietors. - Of the buildings now in existence the most ancient is a structure of extensive proportions that appears to be of Norman origin, although, like many similar erections, it is called Caesar's Tower. - The castle was for a considerable period the residence of the Clifford family; and was fortified for the king in 1641, by Lady Anne Clifford, who gave the government of it to her neighbour, Sir Philip Musgrave, and he held it out till after the battle of Marston Moor, when he was obliged, contrary to his inclination, to surrender it to the parliamentarians....
A copy of the circa 1870s descriptive, which covers some wonderful landscape history and some genealogy information will be included with the print. Some of the names mentioned are: Ancient family of Tufton, Earls of Thanet - Sir Richard Tufton - Sir Henry Jaques Tufton - John Sackville Richard Tufton.
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