Burghley House, Lincolnshire, England. Elizabethan prodigy house built in 1555 for Sir William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley. With gardens and lake landscaped by Lancelot Capability Brown in the 18th century. 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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