FO Morris antique prints colored engravings
circa 1870s ANTIQUE COLOR PRINT
Title: BADMINTON 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: Excellent Condition. The colors are brilliant, rich and bright. Reverse side is blank and printed on heavier quality paper.
Excerpt from the old descriptive: BADMINTON HOUSE, NEAR TETBURY, GLOUCESTERSHIRE.-DUKE OF BEAUFORT.
THE first possessor of Badminton on record was one
Edrick, who held it in the reign of King Edward the Confessor. Next
ERNULF DE'ESDING Owned it in the time of the Conqueror and afterwards it was
held for several centuries by the family Of
BOTELER, until
Nicholas BOTELER, in the year 1608, sold the estate to
THE HONOURABLE Sir THOMAS SOMERSET, K.B., third Son Of Edward, fourth Earl of
Worcester, who in the year 1626 was created Viscount Somerset of Cashel, in the
county of Tipperary, in Ireland. He left an only daughter and heiress,
ELIZABETH SOMERSET, who dying unmarried, bequeathed the Castle to
HENRY, Lord HEBERT, afterwards created Duke of Beaufort.
The park is very extensive, being nearly teN miles in circumference.
The house within is splendidly decorated.
In the great dining-room is a large quantity of valuable carving in wood by Grinling Gibbons.
The picture gallery contains a fine series of family portraits. The most remarkable of the others is a satirical painting 'by Salvatore Rosa, for which he was expelled from Rome. There also may be found the head of Guido, by himself; one of Cardinal
Alberoni, by Trevisani; of Erasmus and Sir Thomas More, by Holbein; and of
Cornelias Jansen, by,himself. Also several excellent landscapes by Italian masters, The Holy,Family, by Raphael, and other much-admired pictures by Guido and Carlo Dolce.
Badminton was visited in the year 1702 by Queen Anne and her Consort, Prince
George of Denmark.
The family of the Duke of Beaufort derives from Charles Somerset, an illegitimate son of Henry, Duke of Somerset, K.G., himself descended from an illegitimate son of John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster,...........
A copy of the circa 1870s full descriptive, which covers some wonderful landscape history and some genealogy information will be included with the print.
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