Alnwick Castle, bridge and moat, Northumberland, England. Norman castle built in 1096, renovated in the 18th century by Robert Adam and James Paine with landscaped grounds by Capability Brown, and again in the 19th century by Anthony Savin and Luigi Canina for Algernon Percy, 4th Duke of Northumberland. 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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