Wollaton Hall, Nottingham, England. Elizabethan house with Jacobean elements built in the 1580s by Robert Smythson for Sir Francis Willoughby. Remodelled in the 17th century by Sir James Thornhilla and Louis Laguerre. Colour woodblock by Benjamin Fawcett in the Baxter process of an illustration by Alexander Francis Lydon from Reverend Francis Orpen Morris’s Picturesque Views of the Seats of Noblemen and Gentlemen of Great Britain and Ireland, William Mackenzie, London, 1880.

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