FO Morris antique prints colored engravings
circa 1870s ANTIQUE COLOR PRINT
Title: CARNANTON
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: CARNANTON, NEAR ST. COLOMB, CORNWALL. - WILLYAMS.
Carnanton House is romantically situated among beautiful woods at the head of the far-famed valley of Lauherne, and is about two miles from the rocky and iron-bound coast of North Cornwall. - The family of Willyams, or as it was formerly spelt, Wyllyams, came into the county about the year 1485m, the parent stock being in Dorsetshire. - --.....
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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