Swithland Hall, Leicestershire, England. Neo-classical house designed by architect James Pennethorne built in 1834 for George John Danvers-Butler, Earl of Lanesborough. 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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