circa 1870s ANTIQUE COLOR PRINT

Title: CAPESTHORNE

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: Very Good Condition. The colors are brilliant, rich and bright. Reverse side is blank and printed on heavier quality paper.

From the old descriptive: CAPESTHORNE, NEAR CHELFORD, CHESHIRE. - DAVENPORT.

Capesthorne the modern seat of the ancient family of Davenport, came into that family by marriage with the heiress of the Wards of Capesthorne, A.D. 1721. The house, built about the same period, was restored and enlarged about 1837, and in 1861 the centre portion, since rebuilt very nearly on the original plan, was almost wholly destroyed by fire, together with some fine old furniture, panellings, and family portraits of interest. - The ancient seat, described by Leland as "the first and best house of the Davenports at Davenport, a great house covered with lead on the banks of the Dane, near Congleton," is now utterly destroyed, and on its site is built the present Davenport Hall, a modern house of mederate dimensions, which, together with what remained of the old estate, was alienated by Davies Davenport, the great grandfather of the present representative, Mr Bromley Davenport, MP for North Warwichshire, and left to a daughter, who married Mr. Horton, of Catton, to whose faily it still belongs....... The situation of Capesthorne is very picturesque, overlooking a chain of pools suppled from Reedsmere, a fine sheet of water above, on which is still to be seen the old Floating Island.......

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