Old views on cd-rom of Morris 1875

240 Victorian coloured views of country houses of Great Britain and Ireland

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Howsham Hall, near Malton, Yorkshire (Strickland family)

Although originals of these rare views are very difficult to find, you can now get them on a cd-rom prepared from original 19th century items held in a private collection.

The cd-rom isn't mass produced but is compiled individually and personally for each purchaser so there are very few copies in existence. You can get one of them here.

Publication of the 240 woodblock colour printed views contained in this cd-rom was originally conceived and planned in the 1860s by the Revd. Francis Orpen Morris (1810-93), vicar of Nafferton in the East Riding of Yorkshire. The first 80 views were issued in 1866; a further 160 were added over the next decade.

In the early years, the collection was published for its subscribers under different titles as the number of views in the series increased. In 1875, on reaching its maximum size of 240, the work finally became known as A Series of Picturesque Views of Seats of the Noblemen and Gentlemen of Great Britain and Ireland, under which title it remained until its final printing in 1893-94.

Throughout its life, the views, each about 195mm x 140mm and printed in 8 colours, were prepared and printed by Benjamin Fawcett of Driffield (1808-93), acknowledged as Britain's finest nineteenth century woodblock colour printer.

Morris's Seats, as the series is now more usually called, is one of the very few historical pictorial records providing contemporary coloured views of a wide and representative selection of the country houses of the British Isles during the middle to late Victorian period. As such, the series is particularly valuable as many of the houses illustrated in it have since been demolished leaving the views included here as the sole remaining record of their appearance.

Although the views are undated, a few were modified during the publishing period to reflect architectural changes which had taken place; the known dates of the modifications in the printing blocks enable the individual views in the set used to compile this e-book to be identified as having been printed between 1875 and 1882.

Morris and his near-neighbour and collaborator on the series, Fawcett, died within a month of each other in early 1893. Effectively, publication then ceased and the work was never reprinted. Since then, many of the sets have been broken up for their individual views and complete original sets are now difficult to obtain on the antiquarian book and print market.

A few sample images from the series are set out below, followed by a complete list of all the houses.

Everingham Park, near Market Weighton, Yorkshire (Lord Herries) - reduced in size

Burton Constable, near Kingston-upon-Hull, Yorkshire (Baronet Constable) - reduced in size

Mulgrave Castle, near Whitby, Yorkshire (Marquis of Normanby) - reduced in size

Cranbury Park, near Winchester, Hampshire (Chamberlayne family) - reduced in size

The 240 views in this cd-rom of Morris's Seats , similar to the above but larger, are:

1 : Windsor Castle, Berkshire (Royal Residence)
2 : Harewood House, near Wetherby, Yorkshire (Earl of Harewood)
3 : Wilton House, Wiltshire (Earl of Pembroke and Montgomery)
4 : Castle Howard, near Malton, Yorkshire (Earl of Carlisle)
5 : Howsham Hall, near Malton, Yorkshire (Strickland family)
6 : Sudeley Castle, near Winchurch, Gloucestershire (Dent family)
7 : Picton Castle, near Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire (Phillips family)
8 : Wentworth Woodhouse, near Rotherham, Yorkshire (Earl Fitzwilliam)
9 : Everingham Park, near Market Weighton, Yorkshire (Lord Herries)
10 : Holme Lacy, near Hereford, Herefordshire (Baronet Stanhope)
11 : Eaton Hall, near Chester, Cheshire (Duke of Westminster)
12 : Thrybergh Park, near Rotherham, Yorkshire (Fullerton family)
13 : Floors Castle, near Kelso, Roxburghshire (Duke of Roxburghe)
14 : Lea, near Gainsborough, Lincolnshire (Baronet Anderson)
15 : Farnham House, near Cavan, Ireland (Lord Farnham)
16 : Ilam Hall, near Ashbourne, Staffordshire (Hanbury family)
17 : Warwick Castle, Warwickshire (Earl of Warwick)
18 : Burton Constable, near Kingston-upon-Hull, Yorkshire (Baronet Constable)
19 : Franks, near Farningham, Kent (Power family)
20 : Chatsworth, near Bakewell, Derbyshire (Duke of Devonshire)
21 : Guy's Cliffe, near Warwick, Warwickshire (Percy family)
22 : Knowsley Hall. near Prescot, Lancashire (Earl of Derby)
23 : Garnstone, near Weobley, Herefordshire (Peploe family)
24 : Trentham Hall, Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire (Duke of Sutherland)
25 : Charlecote, near Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire (Lucy family)
26 : Ripley Castle, near Knaresborough, Yorkshire (Baronet Ingilby)
27 : Burghley House, near Stamford, Lincolnshire (Marquis of Exeter)
28 : Alton Towers, near Cheadle, Staffordshire (Earl of Shrewsbury and Talbot)
29 : Broadlands, near Romsey, Hampshire (Cowper-Temple family)
30 : Temple-Newsam, near Leeds, Yorkshire (Meynell-Ingram family)
31 : Wollaton Hall, near Nottingham, Nottinghamshire (Lord Middleton)
32 : Inverary Castle, Argyllshire (Duke of Argyll)
33 : Newstead Abbey, near Mansfield, Nottinghamshire (Webb family)
34 : Blenheim, near Woodstock, Oxfordshire (Duke of Marlborough)
35 : Cranbury Park, near Winchester, Hampshire (Chamberlayne family)
36 : Scone Palace, near Scone, Perthshire (Earl of Mansfield)
37 : Whitley Court, near Droitwich, Worcestershire (Earl of Dudley)
38 : Glanusk Park, near Crickhowell, Brecknockshire (Baronet Bailey)
39 : Burton-Agnes Hall, near Bridlington, Yorkshire (Baronet Boynton)
40 : Balmoral Castle, near Balleter, Aberdeenshire (Royal Private Residence)
41 : Alnwick Castle, Northumberland (Duke of Northumberland)
42 : Beaudesert, near Longdon, Staffordshire (Marquis of Anglesey)
43 : Belvoir Castle, near Grantham, Lincolnshire (Duke of Rutland)
44 : Hatfield House, Hertfordshire (Marquis of Salisbury)
45 : Hampton Court, near Leominster, Herefordshire (Arkwright family)
46 : Mulgrave Castle, near Whitby, Yorkshire (Marquis of Normanby)
47 : Woburn Abbey, Bedfordshire (Duke of Bedford)
48 : Raby Castle, near Staindrop, Durham (Duke of Cleveland)
49 : Harlaxton Manor, near Grantham, Lincolnshire (Gregory family)
50 : Ardtully, near Kenmare, Kerry (Sir Richard John Theodore Orpen)
51 : Elvaston, near Derby, Derbyshire (Earl of Harrington)
52 : Milton Abbey, near Blandford, Dorset (Baron Hambro)
53 : Cobham Hall, near Gravesend, Kent (Earl of Darnley)
54 : Stourton, near Knaresborough, Yorkshire (Lord Stourton)
55 : Melbury House, near Dorchester, Dorset (Earl of Ilchester)
56 : Taymouth Castle, near Aberfeldy, Perthshire (Earl of Breadalbane)
57 : Cholmondeley Castle, near Malpas, Cheshire (Marquis of Cholmondeley)
58 : Worsley Hall, near Manchester, Lancashire (Earl of Ellesmere)
59 : Swithland Hall, near Mountsorrell, Leicestershire (Earl of Lanesborough)
60 : Clifton Hall, near Nottingham, Nottinghamshire (Baronet Clifton)
61 : Stowe Park, Buckinghamshire (Duke of Buckingham and Chandos)
62 : Combermere Abbey, near Whitchurch, Shropshire (Viscount Combermere)
63 : Leeds Castle, near Maidstone, Kent (Wykeham-Martin family)
64 : Gopsal Hall, near Twycross, Leicestershire (Lord Howe)
65 : Dunrobin Castle, Sutherlandshire (Duke of Sutherland)
66 : Drakelowe Hall, near Burton-on-Trent, Derbyshire (Baronet Gresley)
67 : Panshanger Park, near Hertford, Hertfordshire (Earl Cowper)
68 : Audley End, near Saffron Walden, Essex (Lord Braybrooke)
69 : Mount Edgcumbe, Cornwall, near Plymouth, Devon (Lord Mount Edgcumbe)
70 : Penrhyn Castle, near Bangor, Carnarvonshire (Lord Penrhyn)
71 : Wytham Abbey, near Oxford, Oxfordshire (Earl of Abingdon)
72 : Eden Hall, near Penrith, Cumberland (Baronet Musgrave)
73 : Lowther Castle, near Clifton, Westmoreland (Earl of Lonsdale)
74 : Ugbrooke, near Chudleigh, Devon (Lord Clifford)
75 : Corsham Court, near Corsham, Wiltshire (Lord Methuen)
76 : Wimpole Hall, near Royston, Cambridgeshire (Earl of Hardwicke)
77 : Cassiobury Park, near Watford, Hertfordshire (Earl of Essex)
78 : Badminton House, near Tetbury, Gloucestershire (Duke of Beaufort)
79 : Danbury Palace, near Malson, Essex (Bishop of Rochester)
80 : Clumber Park, near Ollerton, Nottinghamshire (Duke of Newcastle)
81 : Sandringham, near Lynn, Norfolk (H.R.H. The Prince of Wales)
82 : Compton Verney, near Kineton, Warwickshire (Lord Willoughby de Broke)
83 : Lambton Castle, Durham (Earl of Durham)
84 : Mamhead, near Exmouth, Devon (Baronet Newman)
85 : Keele Hall, near Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire (Sneyd family)
86 : Shirburn Castle, near Tetsworth, Oxfordshire (Earl of Macclesfield)
87 : Wynyard Park, near Stockton-on-Tees, Durham (Marquis of Londonderry)
88 : Hutton Hall, near Guisborough, Yorkshire (Pease family)
89 : Muncaster Castle, near Ravenglass, Cumberland (Lord Muncaster)
90 : Brantingham Thorpe, near Brough, Yorkshire (Sykes family)
91 : Helmingham Hall, near Debenham, Suffolk (Baron Tollemache)
92 : Trafalgar House, near Salisbury, Wiltshire (Earl Nelson)
93 : Broughton Castle, near Banbury, Oxfordshire (Lord Saye and Sele)
94 : Stowlangtoft Hall, near Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk (Wilson family)
95 : Capesthorne, near Chelford, Cheshire (Davenport family)
96 : Powerscourt, near Enniskerry, Co. Wicklow, Ireland (Viscount Powerscourt)
97 : Studley Castle, near Studley, Warwickshire (Walker family)
98 : Eshton Hall, near Skipton, Yorkshire (Baronet Wilson)
99 : Caen Wood Towers, Highgate, Middlesex (Brooke family)
100 : Birr Castle, Parsonstown, Ireland (Earl of Rosse)
101 : Arbury Hall, near Nuneaton, Warwickshire (Newdegate family)
102 : Wroxton Abbey, near Banbury, Oxfordshire (North family)
103 : Coughton Court, near Alcester, Warwickshire (Baronet Throckmorton)
104 : Euston Hall, near Fakenham, Suffolk (Duke of Grafton)
105 : Sezincourt, near Morton-in-the-Marsh, Lincolnshire (Baronet Rushout)
106 : Kimbolton Castle, Kimbolton, Huntingdonshire (Duke of Manchester)
107 : Westonbirt House, near Tetbury, Gloucestershire (Holford family)
108 : Wolseley Hall, near Bugeley, Staffordshire (Baronet Wolseley)
109 : Dartrey, County of Monaghan, Ireland (Earl of Dartrey)
110 : Merevale Hall, near Atherstone, Warwickshire (Dugdale family)
111 : Bestwood Lodge, near Nottingham, Nottinghamshire (Duke of St. Albans)
112 : Rossmore Park, County of Monaghan, Ireland (Lord Rossmore)
113 : Philiphaugh, near Selkirk, Selkirkshire (Baronet Murray)
114 : Wynnstay, near Ruabon, Denbighshire (Baronet Williams-Wynn)
115 : Moreton Hall, near Congleton, Cheshire (Ackers family)
116 : Hengrave Hall, near Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk (Gage family)
117 : Easton Hall, near Grantham, Lincolnshire (Baronet Cholmeley)
118 : Preston Hall, near Aylesford, Kent (Brassey family)
119 : Lawton Hall, near Congleton, Cheshire (Lawton family)
120 : St. Michael's Mount, Cornwall (Baronet St. Aubyn)
121 : Arundel Castle, near Arundel, Sussex (Duke of Norfolk)
122 : Exton House, near Oakham, Rutland (Earl of Gainsborough)
123 : Rolleston Hall, near Burton-upon-Trent, Staffordshire (Baronet Mosley)
124 : Lumley Castle, near Chester-le-Street, Durham (Earl of Scarborough)
125 : Rushton Hall, near Kettering, Northamptonshire (Clarke-Thornhill family)
126 : Peper Harow, near Godalming, Surrey (Viscount Midleton)
127 : Capernwray, near Lancaster, Lancashire (Marton family)
128 : Bulwell Hall, near Bulwell, Nottinghamshire (Cooper family)
129 : Bishops Court, near Straffan, County Kildare, Ireland (Earl of Clonmell)
130 : Heaton Park, near Prestwich, Lancashire (Earl of Wilton)
131 : Drumlanrig Castle, Dumfriesshire (Duke of Buccleuch)
132 : Carnanton, near St. Colomb, Cornwall (Willyams family)
133 : Dromoland, County Clare, Ireland (Lord Inchiquin)
134 : Locko Park, near Derby, Derbyshire (Drury-Lowe family)
135 : Elton Hall, Huntingdonshire and Northamptonshire (Earl of Carysfort)
136 : Eastnor Castle, near Eastnor, Herefordshire (Earl Somers)
137 : Galloway House, near Wigton, Wigtownshire (Earl of Galloway)
138 : Deene Park, near Rockingham, Northamptonshire (Countess of Cardigan)
139 : Adare Manor, County Limerick, Ireland (Earl of Dunraven)
140 : Appleby Castle, Westmoreland (Baronet Tufton)
141 : Kelham Hall, near Newark-on-Trent, Nottinghamshire (Manners-Sutton family)
142 : Castle Coole, County Fermanagh, Ireland (Earl of Belmore)
143 : Kirtling Tower, near Newmarket, Cambridgeshire (Baroness North)
144 : Haddo House, Aberdeenshire (Earl of Aberdeen)
145 : Barons Court, County Tyrone, Ireland (Duke of Abercorn)
146 : Walton Hall, near Stratford-on-Avon, Warwickshire (Baronet Mordaunt)
147 : Oxley Manor, near Wolverhampton, Staffordshire (Staveley-Hill family)
148 : Nether Hall, near Thurston, Norfolk (Greene family)
149 : Gunton Park, near Aylsham, Norfolk (Lord Suffield)
150 : Shelton Abbey, near Arklow, Co. Wicklow, Ireland (Earl of Wicklow)
151 : Ednaston Lodge, near Derby, Derbyshire (Kingdon family)
152 : Peckforton Castle, near Tarporley, Cheshire (Baron Tollemache)
153 : Tyttenhanger Park, near St. Albans, Hertfordshire (Countess of Caledon)
154 : Penshurst Castle, near Penshurst, Kent (Lord De L'Isle and Dudley)
155 : Somerleyton, near Lowestoft, Suffolk (Baronet Crossley)
156 : Underley Hall, near Kirkby Lonsdale, Westmoreland (Earl of Bective)
157 : Ashcombe Park, near Leek, Staffordshire (Sneyd family)
158 : Witchingham Hall, near Reepham, Norfolk (Viscount Canterbury)
159 : Caledon, County Tyrone, Ireland (Earl of Caledon)
160 : Denby Grange, near Wakefield, Yorkshire (Baronet Lister-Kaye)
161 : Hornby Castle, near Bedale, Yorkshire (Duke of Leeds)
162 : Bowood Park, near Calne, Wiltshire (Marquis of Lansdowne)
163 : Astley Hall, near Chorley, Lancashire (Townley Parker family)
164 : Beningbrough Hall, near York, Yorkshire (Dawnay family)
165 : Donington Castle, Leicestershire (Baron Donington)
166 : Dunmore Park, near Falkirk, Stirlingshire (Earl of Dunmore, Earl of)
167 : Kimberley Hall, near Wymondham, Norfolk (Earl of Kimberley)
168 : Sandbeck Park, Tickhill, Yorkshire (Earl of Scarborough)
169 : Ravensworth Castle, near Ayton Bank, Durham (Earl of Ravensworth)
170 : Bramhall Hall, near Stockport, Cheshire (Davenport family)
171 : Glamis Castle, near Forfar, Forfarshire (Earl of Strathmore)
172 : Rhydd Court, near Upton-on-Severn, Worcestershire (Baronet Lechmere)
173 : Aske Hall, near Richmond, Yorkshire (Earl of Zetland)
174 : Hughenden Manor, near Wycombe, Buckinghamshire (Earl of Beaconsfield)
175 : Tregothnan, near St. Michael Penkevil, Cornwall (Viscount Falmouth)
176 : Abbotsford, near Melrose, Roxburghshire (Scott family)
177 : Denton Park, near Otley, Yorkshire (Wyvill family)
178 : Longleat, near Warminster, Wiltshire (Marquis of Bath)
179 : Glynde Place, near Lewes, Sussex (Brand family)
180 : Lanhydrock, near Bodmin, Cornwall (Lord Robartes)
181 : Studley Royal, near Ripon, Yorkshire (Marquis of Ripon)
182 : West Wycombe House, Buckinghamshire (Baronet Dashwood)
183 : Mersham-le-Hatch, near Ashford, Kent (Baronet Knatchbull)
184 : Aldby Park, near Stamford Bridge, Yorkshire (Darley family)
185 : Dalkeith Palace, near Edinburgh (Duke of Buccleuch)
186 : Cowdray Park, near Midhurst, Sussex (Earl of Egmont)
187 : Lathom House, near Ormskirk, Lancashire (Earl Lathom)
188 : The Down House, near Blandford, Dorsetshire (Baronet Smith-Marriott)
189 : Workington Hall, near Whitehaven, Cumberland (Curwen family)
190 : Dytchley House, near Charlbury, Oxfordshire (Viscount Dillon)
191 : Castle Forbes, near Whitehouse, Aberdeenshire (Lord Forbes)
192 : Nostel Priory, near Pontefract, Yorkshire (Winn family)
193 : Hanbury Hall, near Bromsgrove, Worcestershire (Vernon family)
194 : Westwood Park, near Droitwich, Worcestershire (Lord Hampton)
195 : Toddington Park, near Winchcombe, Gloucestershire (Lord Sudeley)
196 : Downton Hall, near Aston, Herefordshire (Rouse-Boughton-Knight family)
197 : Rossie Castle, near Montrose, Scotland (Macdonald family)
198 : High Cliffe, near Christchurch, Hampshire (Marchioness of Waterford)
199 : Danesfield House, near Great Marlow, Buckinghamshire (Scott-Murray family)
200 : Abercairny, near Crieff, Perthshire (Home-Drummond family)
201 : Bagshot Park, Surrey, near Windsor, Berkshire (H.R.H. the Duke of Connaught)
202 : Brancepeth Castle, Durham (Viscount Boyne, Viscount)
203 : Wycombe Abbey, near Wycombe, Buckinghamshire (Lord Carrington)
204 : Willesley Hall, near Ashby-de-la-Zouch, Leicestershire (Earl of Loudoun)
205 : Hamilton Palace, Lanarkshire (Duke of Hamilton)
206 : Hutton-in-the-Forest, near Penrith, Cumberland (Baronet Vane)
207 : Cliveden, Buckinghamshire, near Maidenhead, Berkshire (Duke of Westminster)
208 : Meer Hall, near Droitwich, Worcestershire (Bearcroft family)
209 : Eggesford House, near Wembworth, Devon (Earl of Portsmouth)
210 : Lilburn Tower, near Alnwick, Northumberland (Collingwood family)
211 : Stevenstone Park, near Torrington, Devon (Rolle family)
212 : Netherhall, near Maryport, Cumberland (Pocklington-Senhouse family)
213 : Brechin Castle, near Brechin, Forfarshire (Earl of Dalhousie)
214 : Pynes, near Exeter, Devon (Baronet Northcote)
215 : Bearwood, near Wokingham, Berkshire (Walter family)
216 : Nuneham Park, Oxfordshire, near Abingdon, Berkshire (Harcourt family)
217 : Chillingham Castle, near Wooler, Northumberland (Earl of Tankerville)
218 : Castle Hill, near South Molton, Devon (Earl Fortescue)
219 : Thicket Priory, near York, Yorkshire (Dunnington-Jefferson family)
220 : Sundorne Castle, near Shrewsbury, Shropshire (Corbet-Pigott family)
221 : Holker Hall, near Cartmel, Lancashire (Duke of Devonshire)
222 : Dunster Castle, near Dunster, Somerset (Fownes-Luttrell family)
223 : Eastwell Park, near Ashford, Kent (Earl of Winchilsea)
224 : Acton Reynold Hall, near Shrewsbury, Shropshire (Baronet Corbet)
225 : Levens Hall, near Heversham, Westmoreland (Upton family)
226 : Normanhurst, near Battle, Sussex (Brassey family)
227 : Apley Park, near Bridgenorth, Shropshire (Foster family)
228 : Dalton Hall, near Beverley, Yorkshire (Lord Hotham)
229 : Hemsted Park, near Staplehurst, Kent (Viscount Cranbrook)
230 : Powis Castle, near Welshpool, Montgomeryshire (Earl of Powis)
231 : Hawkestone, near Hodnet, Shropshire (Viscount Hill)
232 : Howick Hall, near Alnwick, Northumberland (Earl Grey)
233 : Hawarden Castle, near Mold, Flintshire (Gladstone family)
234 : Warter Priory, near Pocklington, Yorkshire (Wilson family)
235 : Knole, near Sevenoaks, Kent (Lord Sackville)
236 : Castle Macgarrett, near Ballindine, Mayo, Ireland (Lord Oranmore and Browne)
237 : Melton Constable, near Thetford, Norfolk (Lord Hastings)
238 : Brockley Hall, near Bristol, Somerset (Smyth-Pigott family)
239 : Heythrop, near Chipping-Norton, Oxfordshire (Brassey family)
240 : Berkeley Castle, near Berkeley, Gloucestershire (Baron Fitzhardinge)

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