Hamilton Palace, Lanarkshire, Scotland. Neo-classical Palladian-style stately home with Corinthian pediment built by architect James Smith in 1695 for William Douglas-Hamilton, Duke of Hamilton, refurbished in the Regency era by David Hamilton from plans by WIlliam Adam. Colour woodblock by Benjamin Fawcett in the Baxter process of an illustration by Alexander Francis Lydon from Reverend Francis Orpen Morris’s Picturesque Views of the Seats of Noblemen and Gentlemen of Great Britain and Ireland, William Mackenzie, London, 1880.

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