2-329-455 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Knole, near Sevenoaks, Kent, home of Lord Sackville, c1880. The house was built in the second half of the 15th century by Thomas Bourchier, Archbishop of Canterbury. Henry VIII took it from Archbishop Thomas Cranmer in 1538 and in 1566 Elizabeth I gave it to her cousin Thomas Sackville. 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.