2-329-603 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Burghley House, Lincolnshire, home of the Marquis of Exeter, c1880. The house was built in the 16th century for William Cecil, Lord Burghley, Lord High Treasurer to Queen Elizabeth I. The surrounding park was laid out by Capability Brown in the 1770s and 1780s. 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 I, William Mackenzie, London, c1880. Wood-engraved plates after paintings by Benjamin Fawcett and Alexander Francis Lydon.