A series of picturesque views of seats of the noblemen and gentlemen of Great Britain and Ireland. With descriptive and historical letterpress (1880)
Morris, F. O. (Francis Orpen), 1810-1893, Fawcett, Benjamin, Lydon, A. F. (Alexander Francis) · London, Edinburgh, Dublin, William Mackenzie · leaf 217
brink, and stoodWith their green faces fixed upon the flood.I. M 78 NEWSTEAD ABBEY. Amidst the court a Gothic fountain playd, Symmetrical, but deckd with carvings quaint— Strange faces, like to men in masquerade,And here perhaps a monster, there a saint: The spring gushd through grim mouths of… … U- BLENHEIM, NEAR WOODSTOCK, OXFORDSHIRE.—DUKE OF MARLBOROUGH. If nothing were to be seen in England but this seat, with its park and treasuresof art, writes Dr. Waagen, the Director of the Royal Gallery at Berlin, therewould be no reason to repent the journey to this country. The whole is on…
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