2-329-447 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Apley Park, near Bridgnorth, Shropshire, home of the Foster family, c1880. The house was rebuilt in Gothic style in 1811 by Thomas Whitmore, an iron founder who had made his fortune producing cannon during the Napoleonic Wars. A print from A Series of Picturesque Views of Seats of the Noblemen and Gentlemen of Great Britain and Ireland, edited by Reverend FO Morris, Volume VI, William Mackenzie, London, c1880. Wood-engraved plates after paintings by Benjamin Fawcett and Alexander Francis Lydon.