Ilam Hall, Staffordshire, England. Owner Jesse Watts-Russell commissioned James Trubshaw to build a new hall to designs by John Shaw in the 1820s. 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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