circa 1870s ANTIQUE COLOR PRINT

Title: WEST WYCOMBE 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: NEAR WYCOMBE, BUCKINGHAMSHIRE. - DASHWOOD, BARONET.

THE mansion stands on a gentle eminence, and is a very spacious and elegant building; its south or principal front is about three hundred feet long. ..... The grounds are extensive, and contain a variety of sylvan beauties; but the most prominent feature in the landscape is the lake, which spreads its waters over an extensive surface, and is adorned with several islands, planted with fine forest trees, spreading their immense branches in a wild and luxuriant manner. ....... The various prospects are extremely picturesque, embracing among other objects the town and church of High W ycombe, the mausoleum near the Church of West Wycombe , and the meandering river, with the delightful vale, in which the former are situated. - ...... The family of Dashwood is stated to have been originally seated in Dorsetshire, and to have migrated thence into Somersetshire. SAMUEL DASHWOOD, ESQ., of Rowdon, in the parish of Stogumber, Somersetshire, married twice, first, September 2nd., 1600, Elizabeth Sweetinge. Their second son, FRANCIS DASHWOOD, ESQ., was a Turkey Merchant, and an Alderman of London. He married Alice Sleigh, and had, with six daughters, two sons, of whom the younger, FRANCIS DASHWOOD, ESQ., was created a Baronet, June '28th., 1707, and was Member for Winchelsea in Parliament. He was married four times, his second wife being Mary, daughter. of Vere, fourth Earl of Westmoreland, and eve'ntually one of the coheiresses of the Barony of Le Despencer, and had a son, FRANCIS, second Baronet. His third wife was Mary, daughter of Major King, and by that lady he had a son, JOHN, who became third Baronet, and assumed the name of King. Sir Francis died November 4th., 1724, and was buried at Wycombe. His eldest son, SIR FRANCIS DASHWOOD, second Baronet, born in December, 1708, succeeded to the Barony of Le Despencer, in right of his mother, in 1762, and was summoned to Parliament, April 19th., 1763. He was at one time at the head of the War Office, and afterwards Master of the Wardrobe, and filled the office of Chancellor of the Excheq'uer from May 29th., 1762, to April 16th., 1763. He married Sarah, daughter and heiress of Thomas Gould, Esq., and widow of Sir Richard Ellys, ………..RALPH WILBRAHAM, ESQ., living in the reign of King Henry the Eighth, who married Elizabeth, daughter of - Sandford, of the county of Lancaster . The second of his three sons,………

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