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Europe Landscape Illustrations antique prints wood engravings
1880s Book Plate Engraving - Antique Print
WEST WYCOMBE PARK
LLYN GWYNANT AND MERLIN'S FORT
BACK TO BACK ENGRAVINGS (PICTURES ARE ON FRONT AND BACK)
 
BACK TO BACK ENGRAVINGS (PICTURES ARE ON FRONT AND BACK)


Approximate Overall Size With Margins: 9 x 11 3/4 inches (23 x 29.5 cm)
West Wycombe Park is a country house near the village of West Wycombe in Buckinghamshire,
England. Built between 1740 and 1800 as a pleasure palace for the decadent 18th-century
libertine and dilettante Sir Francis Dashwood, the house is long and rectangular,
and all four façades are columned and pedimented, three theatrically
so. The house combines and encapsulates the entire progression of British 18th-century
architecture from early idiosyncratic Palladian to the Neoclassical, although
anomalies in the design of the house make it architecturally unique. It is in
an 18th-century landscaped park, surrounded by smaller temples that act as satellites
to the greater temple, the house.
Llyn Gwynant is a lake in Snowdonia, Wales. Llyn Gwynant lies on the River
Glaslyn, in the Nant Gwynant valley and is about 2km north east of Llyn Dinas;
the village of Bethania lies between them. Snowdon lies 3km to the north west.
The lake is natural, having been formed by glacial action and is 50 ha in size.
CONDITION: Antique Book Plate Intext Wood Engraving. Text and images on front and back. Very Good Condition. Image has beautiful detail. Originates from an 1880s antique book publication.
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