circa 1870s ANTIQUE COLOR PRINT

Title: ARBURY

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: Couple of spots at top area, otherwise in Very Good Condition. The colors are brilliant, rich and bright. Reverse side is blank and printed on heavier quality paper. Image Protection watermark is not on the actual print.

From the old descriptive: ARBURY HALL, NEAR NUNEATON, WARWICKSHIRE. - NEWDEGATE.

This mansion was raised on the ruins of an ancient priory, and is indebted to the tasteful exertions of the late Sir Roger Nedegate, Bart., for such improvents as render it a most elegant specimen of the compendious Gothic style. The house is seated in the midst of a fine and extensive park, well wooded and adorned with artificial expanses of water. The approach on the north is through a long and magnificent avenue of trees, the lines of which, rich in various foliage, are broken in a manner judiciously conducive to the picturesppue. The exterior of the building is entirely cased with stone, and each front presents a separate design of architectureal beauty, though all are consistent in general character...............- This family represents, through an heiress, the ancient and knightly race of the name descending from John de Newdegate, living in the third year of the reign of Edward the Third. In the male line it descends as follows: - ..............

A copy of the circa 1870s full descriptive, which covers some wonderful landscape history and some genealogy information will be included with the print.