2-329-566 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Mount Edgcumbe, Cornwall, home of Lord Mount Edgcumbe, c1880. Built in the mid 16th century, the house was severely damaged by German bombing in World War II. A print from A Series of Picturesque Views of Seats of the Noblemen and Gentlemen of Great Britain and Ireland, edited by Reverend FO Morris, Volume II, William Mackenzie, London, c1880. Wood-engraved plates after paintings by Benjamin Fawcett and Alexander Francis Lydon.