Castle Forbes, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. Scottish baronial style castle built in 1815 by James Ochoncar Forbes, 17th Lord Forbes, to designs by Archibald Simpson and later John Smith. Home of Horace Courtenay Forbes, 19th Baron Forbes. 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, 1880.

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