Raby Castle, Durham, England. Medieval castle built in 1379 by John de Neville, 3rd Baron, with Gothic style entrance hall added in the 19th century by the Vanes, the Dukes of Cleveland, descendants of William Harry Vane, 1st Duke of Cleveland, owner of a plantation in Barbados (233 enslaved). 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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