FO Morris antique prints colored engravings
circa 1870s ANTIQUE COLOR PRINT
Title: CORSHAM COURT
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: CORSHAM COURT, NEAR CORSHAM, WILTSHIRE.- LORD METHUEN.
This was anciently a royal mansion, and used to be a portion of the dowry of the Queens of England. As such it was at one time possessed by Henrietta Maria, the Queen of Charles the First.The name was sometimes written as it is still pronounced-Cosham, and as such it is thus described by Leland in his "Itinerary:"- "Cosham is a good uplandish town, where the rains of an old manor-place, and thereby a park, wont to be dower to the Queens of England. Mr. Baynton, in Queen Anne's days, pulled down, by license, a piece of this house, somewhat to help his buildings at Bromham. Old Mr. Bonhomme told me that Cosham I appertained to the Earldom of Cornwall, and that Cosham was a mansion-place belonging to it, where they sometimes lay. All the men of this townlet were bond; so that upon a time one of the Earls of Cornwall hearing them secretly lament their fate, manumitted them for money, and gave them the lordship of Cosham in copyhold, to pay a chief rent." The house was originally built by JOHN THORPE, Esg., in the year 1582, and was next the property of the family of HUNGERFORD, from whom it passed to that of METHUEN. There is here an extremely valuable collection of paintings, some of them considered the chef-d'Ouvres of their respective masters; among others Rubens, Titian, Guido, Correggio, Paul Veronese, Michael Angelo, etc., etc. The family of Methuen is of foreign extraction, and is stated to have derived from a German of distinction who had accompanied Queen Margaret from Hungary about the year 1070, and on whom Malcolm Canmore, King of Scotland, bestowed the Barony of Methuen in Perthshire. JOHN METHUEN was Secretary of State in Scotland in the year 1440. JOHN METHUEN of Bishop Cannings, in Wiltshire, in the reigns of King William the Third and Queen Anne, Chancellor of Ireland and Ambassador to Portugal, was father of SIR PAUL METHUEN, K.B., a minister of these sovereigns, one of the Secretaries of State, Ambassador to Madrid, and Comptroller of the Household. His cousin, PAUL METHUEN, ESQ., M.P. for Warwick, was followed by ...........
A copy of the circa 1870s descriptive, which covers some wonderful landscape history and some genealogy information will be included with the print.
CONDITION:
A few mild spot on right side of margin area on edge of the image, otherwise in Very Good Condition. The colors are rich and bright and the image shows elaborate detail and is in Excellent Condition. Blank on Reverse side and printed on heavy quality paper. This lovely print would look beautiful matted and framed. An art supply store can provide you with a selection of frames for old art treasures.
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