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Swithland Hall Ancestral Estate, Leicester COLOR PRINT fine art print " FO Morris antique prints colored engravings circa 1870s ANTIQUE COLOR PRINT Title: SWITHLAND HALL Approximate Image Size: 5 X 7 1/2 inches Approximate Overall Size: 8 X 10 1/2 inches Brilliant color print. Printed and engraved by by B. Fawcett, Driffield. This beautiful attractive colour plate originates from and is one of a Series of Picturesque Views of Seats of The Noblemen and Gentlemen of Great Britian and Ireland as presented by F. O. Morris. A greater proportion of the drawings which originated from the publication were by Alexander F. Lydon, and printed from coloured wood-blocks using the Baxter process by Benjamin Fawcett. Published by William Mackenzie, Ludgate Hill, Edinburgh and Dublin CONDITION: Excellent Condition. The colors are brilliant, rich and bright. Reverse side is blank and printed on heavier quality paper. From the old descriptive: SWITHLAND HALL, NEAR MOUNTSORRELL, LEICESTERSHIRE.-EARL OP LANESBOROUGH. SWITHLAND HALL is situated in a lordship of that name, containing about one thousand and eighty acres of land. It is situate two miles from Mountsorrell, five from Loughborough, and seven from Leicester, south of Woodhouse. In the time of King Henry the Third this manor was the inheritance of SIR. WILLIAM DE WALLIES, with whose posterity it continued until the reign of Richard the Second, when it passed by marriage to SIR JOHN DE WALCOTE, Knight. It subsequently became the property of SIR. JOHN DANVERS, whose daughter wedded the HONOURABLE AUGUSTUS RICHARD BUTLER, second son of the Earl of Lanesborough, who thereupon, as below referred to, assumed the name Of DANVERS. The family of Lord Lanesborough derives from JOHN BUTLER Of Waresley, in Huntingdonshire, whose descendant, SIR. STEPHEN BUTLER, settled in Ireland in the reign of King James the First. He died in 1639, and was succeeded by his eldest son, JAMES BUTLER, ESQ. Of Belturbet, whose brother, STEPHEN BUTLER, Esq. M.P. for Belturbet,.etc. FRANCIS BUTLER Esq. M.P. for Belturbet, whose eldest son, THEOPPHILUS BUTLER Esq. created Baron of Newtown-Butler, was succeeded by his brother, BRINSLEY BUTLER, second Baron, Gentleman-usher of the Black Rod, and Colonel of the Battle-axe Guard in Ireland, who represented the county of Cavan in Parliament, and was made Viscount Lanesborough on the 12th. of August, 1728. He had, and his eldest son, HUMPHREY BUTLER, second Viscount-Lanesboroug, was raised to the earldom in 1756, and his son, BRINSLEY BUTLER, second Earl of Lanesborough, had with other issue, AUGUSTUS RICHARD BUTLER, the Second Son, Who married Elizabeth, daughter and heiress of Sir John Danvers, Bart., when he assumed the additional name and arms of Danvers, and his eldest son, GEORGE JOHN DANVERS BUTLER-DANVERS, became of Swithland Hall. A copy of the circa 1870s full descriptive, which covers some wonderful landscape history of SWITHLAND HALL and some genealogy information will be We do have more than 1 in stock of some of these so the image shown may be a stock photo, so please do contact us with any concerns about condition. We will also let you know if there's any major defect before shipping. ALSO AVAILABLE FOR DOWNLOAD AT HIGH DPI RESOLUTION, PLEASE EMAIL FOR INFO. N° de ref. del artículo 6065
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