English lady surveying a fancy room with covered furniture and chandeliers in brown-holland balloons, 19th century. Housekeeper Mrs Mustard showing Mrs Lucy Somerville around the drawing room. Mrs Somerville thinks Beldon Hall will do. Handcoloured steel engraving after an illustration by John Leech from Robert Smith Surtees’ Mr. Facey Romford’s Hounds, Bradbury, Evans and Co., London, 1865. Leech (1817-1864) was an English caricaturist and illustrator best known for his work for Punch magazine.

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