These country houses of Great Britain and Ireland were produced by Benjamin Fawcett of Driffield, Britain's finest nineteenth century woodblock or chromolithograph printer.
Each view is 8 x 11 inches in overall size including the margins with the view itself being approximately 5 x 7.5 inches. It is in very good and unmarked condition. The views are very suitable for framing. THESE ARE SOME OF THE FINEST CHROMOLITHOGRAPHS THAT I HAVE SEEN.
Throughout its life, the views, printed in 8 colours, were prepared and printed by Benjamin Fawcett of Driffield (1808-1893), acknowledged as Britain's finest nineteenth chromo printer.
Morris's Seats, as the series is now more usually called, is one of the very few historical pictorial records of contemporary coloured views of the country houses of the British Isles during the Victorian period. As such, the series is particularly valuable as many of the houses illustrated in it have since been demolished.
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