Eastnor Castle, Herefordshire, England. Retro Norman castle built in the 12th-century style by Sir Robert Smirke for John Somers Cocks, Earl Somers, 1815. Colour woodblock by Benjamin Fawcett in the Baxter process of an illustration by Alexander Francis Lydon from Reverend Francis Orpen Morris’s A Series of Picturesque Views of the Seats of Noblemen and Gentlemen of Great Britain and Ireland, William Mackenzie, London, 1870.

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