2-329-652 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Rossie Castle, Forfarshire, Scotland, home of the Macdonald family, c1880. The house was built in c1795 for Hercules Ross, a Scottish merchant who made a fortune in Jamaica, became a friend of Nelson and became a supporter of the campaign for the abolition of the slave trade. 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.