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Watermouth, Devon, the seat of Joseph Davie Bassett. View of the house with its eastern terrace and romantic scenery. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after an illustration by F.W.L
St. Pierre manor house, Monmouthshire, Wales, seat of Charles Lewis. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after an illustration by F.W.L
Saltram House, seat of John Parker, 1st Baron BoringdonSaltram House, Plymouth, Devon, seat of John Parker, 1st Baron Boringdon. Georgian country house with interior by architect Robert Adam
Piercefield, Monmouthshire, seat of Nathaniel Wells. Built by architect Sir Mark Wood in Bath stone in the Grecian style. Slave owner Nathaniel Wells was the son of sugar planter William Wells
Swainston Manor, Isle of Wight, seat of Sir Fitzwilliam Barrington, 10th baronet. Built in the 18th century. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after an illustration by John Gendall from Rudolph
Dunster Castle, Somerset, seat of John Fowles Luttrell. Motte and bailey castle built by William de Mohun, later a country house
Powderham Castle, seat of Lord Viscount William CourtenayPowderham Castle, Devon, seat of Lord Viscount William Courtenay, 9th Earl of Devon, gay lover of slave owner William Beckford
Burghley House, seat of Henry Cecil, Marquis of ExeterBurghley House, Cambridgeshire, seat of Henry Cecil, Marquis of Exeter. South front of the Elizabethan house with the lake landscaped by Capability Brown
Moor Park, Hertfordshire, the seat of Robert Williams, 1825. Built in the Palladian style by surveyor Sir James Thornhill from designs by Giacomo Leoni and gardens by Capability Brown
Belvoir Castle, seat of John Manners, 5th Duke ofBelvoir Castle, Leicestershire, seat of John Manners, 5th Duke of Rutland. Built in the romantic Gothic Revival style to designs by the architect James Wyatt and restored by Sir James Thornton
Wimbledon Park House, built in 1801 by Earl SpencerWimbledon Park House. Built in 1801 by George John Spencer, 2nd Earl Spencer, designed by architect Henry Holland with gardens by Capability Brown
Group of villas on Herne Hill, Camberwell, London, 1825. Ornamental cottage, family home, picturesque house and two-story house with Sicilian roof
Bunney Hall or Bunny Hall, Nottinghamshire, 1825Bunney Hall or Bunny Hall, Nottinghamshire, the residence of Lord Rancliffe, 1825. Renovated Elizabethan redbrick house with tower. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after an illustration by F.W.L
Pencarrow House, seat of Lady Mary Molesworth. Stately home in Cornwall. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Rudolph Ackermanns Repository of Arts, London, 1826
Uniform of a sailor in boarding clothes, French Navy, 1844Uniform of a sailor in boarding clothes (matelot, costume d abordage) French Navy, 1844. Handcoloured woodblock print by Pauquet after Goyer from Eugene Paninis Marine, arsenaux, navires, equipages
The first victory trooping of the colour, 1919The first " victory" trooping of the colour in 1919: a stately ceremony in Hyde Park. Central image shows the Scots Guards marching with fixed bayonets
Spider lily, Crinum amabile (Stately crinum, Crinum augustum). Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Weddell after a botanical illustration by John Curtis from William Curtis Botanical Magazine
Chatsworth House from the River DerwentChatsworth House viewed from the River Derwent. circa 1900
Tatler cover - Queen MaryFront cover of The Tatler featuring a photograph of Queen Mary taken by command just before Their Majesties First Court of the season on May 30 1923
The Meet in front of Easthampstead Park, BerkshireThe Meet (Garth Hunt) in front of Lord Downshires Berkshire seat at Easthampstead Park. Date: 1927
Vieusart Castle, near Brussels, Belgium. Date: circa 1950s
Lowther Castle, Cumberland, home for WW2 evacueesLowther Castle, Cumberland, home of Lord Lonsdsale, requisitioned as a home for WW2 evacuees, 2 September 1940. 1940
Barrogill Castle (the Castle of Mey), 1952Bought by the Queen Mother: Barrogill Castle(later known as the Castle of Mey) in Caithness, north Scotland. Top picture shows the view looking westwards to Dunnet Head
Waterloo Place and Regent Street, London, with its fine stately buildings. Date: 1950s
Chatsworth House, DerbyshireChatsworth House in Derbyshire, England. The seat of the Duke of Devonshire, it has been home to the Cavendish family since 1549. circa 1902
Picnic Overlooking Lake Date: 1948
Antebellum Mansion Tour Date: 1950
COUNTRY CLOTHES C. 1890Boys: deerstalker hats, knickerbockers, short square cut fly-fronted jackets. Girls: cloth Tam-OShanters, pleated skirts, gauntlets, D-B jackets, fur coat & bonnet. Date: circa 1890
Estate Workers, Thought to be a Norfolk Stately Home, England. Date: 1900s
A Grand English Country Home - Goodwood House in Sussex - converted to a modern war hospital. Patients beds on one of the Verandas. Date: 1940
The nursery, Brodsworth Hall, Brodsworth, Doncaster, EnglandThe nursery at Brodsworth Hall, Brodsworth, Doncaster, England. Photographed in 1989 with full permission of then owners Ron and Pam Williams Date: 1989
The House from the Parterre - Cliveden, Buckinghamshire. Date: circa 1980s
Cliveden, Bucks - View from the Parterre. Date: 1980s
Blenheim Palace 1928An elevated view of this famous building
HM Bateman evacuees cartoonLady Biggleswades evacuees object to game on alternate day as being monotonous. An upper class family are dismayed to discover complaints about the meals from their temporary guests during the Second
The Country House Season 1915 by Charles Robinson, WW1House party at Castle Bareacres coming down to dinner during the munitions season. A pastiche on the traditional, upper class house party of the pre-war era
Hatfield House as a military hospital, World War TwoHatfield House, ancestral home of the Cecils, as a military hospital in World War Two. The 4th Marquess of Salisbury offered its use
Countess of Seafield by Madame YevondeNina Caroline Ogilvie-Grant, 12th Countess of Seafield (1906-1969) by Madame Yevonde. Also seen in another photograph (top right) with her husband, Derek Herbert Ogilvie-Grant-Studley-Herbert ()
Luncheon in the Talbot Gallery at Alton Towers, 1860Luncheon in the Talbot Gallery to celebrate the taking possession of Alton Towers by Henry Chetwynd-Talbot, 18th Earl of Shrewsbury, on 13th April 1860
How the Staff is informed of movements at the Front. A scene in a stately French chateau. With the British Army on the Western Front - published in 1916 for Tatler and Sphere
Kitchen interior, St Donats Castle, Glamorgan, WalesSketch of the kitchen interior at St Donats Castle, Glamorgan, Wales, by Henrietta Grace Baden Powell (nee Smyth, 1824-1914), mother of Robert. 1842
Entrance to St Donats Castle, Glamorgan, Wales, by Henrietta Grace Baden Powell (nee Smyth, 1824-1914), mother of Robert. 1842
Mistley Hall, Essex, the seat of Richard Rigby Esquire Date: circa 1790
Mount Norris, Kent
Stag SilhouettedA stag stands silhouetted against the evening sky, while a full moon rises beyond yon stately home whose residents are even now planning to hunt it on the morrow
Mentmore Towers 1929Aerial view of Mentmore Towers, Buckinghamshire. Built in 1855 for Baron Meyer Amschel de Rothschild & designed by Sir Joseph Paxton in the Elizabethan style
Gatehouse at Lanhydrock House, CornwallGatehouse with pink flowers in the foreground at Lanhydrock House, a Grade I listed building near Bodmin, Cornwall. Date: circa 1980s
Rhododendrons and Lanhydrock Church, CornwallRhododendrons and Lanhydrock Church, at Lanhydrock House, a Grade I listed building near Bodmin, Cornwall. Date: circa 1980s