2-329-631 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Abbotsford, Roxburghshire, Scotland, home of the Scott family, c1880. Abbotsford was the home of the Scottish novelist and poet Sir Walter Scott. He acquired the site in 1811 and the house was completed in 1824. 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 V, William Mackenzie, London, c1880. Wood-engraved plates after paintings by Benjamin Fawcett and Alexander Francis Lydon.