The Catholic College of Stonyhurst, Lancashire. Inscribed to Tho.s Weld Esq.r of Lullworth Castle.
Drawn by T. Stanton. Engraved by S. Middiman. [n.d., c.1800.] Fine etching and engraving, open letter proof. 430 x 540mm (17 x 21¼) Several small nicks along the top margin. Some minor creasing and faint marks. A view of the Jesuit college, based in a Grade I listed building in Lancashire. Founded in France in 1593, it moved to this site in 1794, when Thomas Weld (1750-1810) of Lulworth Castle (to whom this print is dedicated) donated the building and 30 acres to the Jesuits fleeing the French Revolution. From the Berkeley Collection, Spetchley Park.
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