FO Morris antique prints colored engravings
circa 1870s ANTIQUE COLOR PRINT
Title: BESTWOOD LODGE
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. Image Protection watermark is not on the actual print.
From the old descriptive: BESTWOOD LODGE, NEAR NOTTINGHAM, NOTTINGHAMSHIRE. - DUKE OF ST. ALBANS.
From authentic information there seems no doubt that bestwood was once a royal residence, and much frequented for hunting purposes by royalty, for King Edward the Third, by his letters patent, dated at his Park of Beskwood, 1st. September, 37th. Ed. III., (1364) pardoned and released certain rents issuing out of "Lindley Hay and Bullwell Rise, to the Priory of Newstede." - - - In 1329 the wood of Beskwood was granted by Edward the Third to Richard de Shelley for his life. The same monarch, on the 22nd. of February, 1335, also granted to Richard de Shelley the dry zuches, which in English were then called stovenes or stubbes, within his Hay of Bestwood. -- --- --- Charles the Second, by Royal Letters Patent, about 1683, granted the Park of Bestwood to Henry Beauclerc, or Beauclerk, created Duke of St. Albans, Registrar of the High Court of Chancery, and Master Falconer of England, with remainder to his heirs male. ................
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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