circa 1870s ANTIQUE COLOR PRINT

Title: BEAUDESERT HALL

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: Some mild light smudges on margin area only, not on the image, otherwise in Very Good Condition. The colors are brilliant, rich and bright. Reverse side is blank and printed on heavier quality paper.

From the old descriptive: BEAUDESERT HALL, NEAR LONDON, STAFFORDSHIRE. - MARQUIS OF ANGLESEY.

Beaudesert in former times belonged to the Bishops of Lichfield, but was granted by King Edward the Sixth to Sir William Paget, Knight, ancestor, in the female line, of the present family. - The mansion is finely placed on the side of an eminence, well sheltered by rising grounds, and environed by woods and timber. It is of brick and stone, with two projecting wings. It was erected in the reign of Queen Elizabeth, but has since then had many alterations and additions. - On the top of the hill behind the house there are traces of a large encampment, called Castle Hill. - Cannock Chase, or Cannock Forest, is on the border of the estate, and here is found the cannel coal of which Dr. Plot writes.....The family of Paget, which descende from William Paget, one of the Sergeants at Mace of the City of London, but is now extinct in male line, is derived paternally from the Right Reverend Lewis Bayley, Biship of Bangor, tutor to King Charles the First and Chaplain to his brother Henry Prince of Wales, son of King James the First.

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