2-329-629 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Hughenden Manor, Earl of Beaconsfield, c1880. Hughenden is best known for having been the home of the 19th century Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli, who purhased it in 1848. The house was built in the late 18th century but was remodelled in the 1860s by Edward Buckton Lamb. 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 V, William Mackenzie, London, c1880. Wood-engraved plates after paintings by Benjamin Fawcett and Alexander Francis Lydon.