Print of steel engraving titled „Lambton Castle, Durham. The seat of the R. Hon John-George Lambton, Baron Durham.

Author T. Allom.

Engraved by W. Le Petit.

Published by Peter Jackson London & Paris . A plate taken from Durham & Northumberland their Lake & Mountain Scenery Illustrated published 1847.

Lambton Castle located in County Durham, England, between Sunderland and Chester-le-Street, is a stately home, the ancestral seat of the Lambton family, the Earls of Durham. It is a Grade II* listed building. Largely constructed in its present form in the early 19th century by John Lambton, first Earl of Durham and one-time Governor General of Canada, it was built around the existing Harraton Hall, a 17th-century mansion. The castle was designed by architects Joseph Bonomi the Elder and his son Ignatius and built in the style of a Norman castle, as was the fashion of the time. The building overlooks the wooded Wear Valley and it was paid for with coal mining wealth accumulated from the mines which ran below the castle and others right across County Durham, exploited through Lambton Collieries.

Approx. image size 15, 5 x 9, 8/20, 2 x 13, 7 cm.

Condition: medium.