2-329-540 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Belvoir Castle, Leicestershire, home of the Duke of Rutland, c1880. Built on the site of a Norman hilltop castle, Belvoir was rebuilt in the style of a Gothic castle between 1799 and 1816 by James Wyatt. It had to be extensively restored after a fire in 1816. 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.