2-329-554 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Cholmondeley Castle, Cheshire, home of the Marquis of Cholmondeley, c1880. Built in the 1800s to resemble a Gothic castle, with crenellated towers added in 1817-1819 by Robert Smirke. 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 II, William Mackenzie, London, c1880. Wood-engraved plates after paintings by Benjamin Fawcett and Alexander Francis Lydon.