This attractive colour plate 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 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: Tiny spot on left wide margin area only, otherwise in VERY GOOD TO EXCELLENT 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.
"The east side of the county," says Cudd, "is adorned with the castle of Kinnibantum, now Kimbolton, anciently the seat of the Mandevilles, afterwards of the Bohuns and Staffords, and now of the Wingfields." - Kimbolton Castle, the seat of the Earls and Dukes of Manchester, is of unknown but very remote origin. "The Castle," says Leland, "is double diked, and the building of it metely strong: it longed to the Mandevilles, Erles of Essex. Sir Richard Wingfield built new fair lodgyns and galleries upon the old foundation of the castle. There is a plotte now clene desolated not a mile by west from Kimbolton, called Castle Hill where appear ditches and tokens of old buildings." This Castle was the jointure and became the retirement of Queen Catherine after her divorce from Henry the Eighth. Henry, first Earl of Manchester, expended large sums in making it a comfortable residence; and Robert, his grandson, the third Earl, made further and very considerable alterations and many additions.
A copy of the circa 1870s descriptive, which covers some wonderful landscape history of KIMBOLTON CASTLE and some genealogy information will be included with the print. Some of the names mentioned on the descriptive are THOMAS MONTAGU - SIR EDWARD MONTAGU of Brigstock - QUEEN MARY - LADY JANE GREY - QUEEN ELIZABETH - SIR HENRY MONTAGU - CHARLES MONTAGU - EDWARD MONTAGU - WILLIAM MONTAGU - ROBERT MONTAGU - GEORGE MONTAGU - WILLIAM DROGO MONTAGU. |
