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: 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.
Excerpt from the old descriptive: TRENTHAM HALL, NEAR NEWCASTLE-UNDER-LYME, STAFFORDSHIRE. - DUKE OF SUTHERLAND.
The silver Trent gives its name to this grand ducal residence, built as it is on the site of some house which in Saxon times stood upon its bank, and thence originated the word which now composes the second part of the title of the present mansion. - Trentham Hall is situated about four miles north-west of the town of Newcastle-Under-Lyme, and about five in a nearly opposite direction from that of Stone. - The famile of the Duke of Sutherland derives from Sir Allan Gower, Lord of Stittenham, in Yorkshire, at the time of the Conquest. - Upon the visit of George the Fourth to Scotland in 1822, it was determined by His Majesty that the right of carrying the sceptre before the King was vested in the Earls of Sutherland.
A copy of the circa 1870s descriptive, which covers some wonderful landscape history and some genealogy information will be included with the print.
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