Peckforton Castle, Cheshire, England. Gothic-Revival-style castle designed by Anthony Salvin in 1850 for John Tollemache, slave-owner with six plantations in Antigua (822 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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