Description: CONISBOROUGH CASTLE Artist: P. De Wint ____________ Engraver: Edward Finden Note: the title in the table above is printed below the engraving AN ANTIQUE STEEL ENGRAVING PRINTED IN THE 1830s !! THIS PRINT IS OVER 160 YEARS OLD! VERY OLD WORLD! FRAME FOR YOU DEN, OFFICE LIBRARY, LIVING OR FAMILY ROOM!. CONINGSBURG CASTLE " The king, attended by lvanhoe, Gurth, and Wamba, arrived within view of the Castle of Coningsburg, while the sun was yet in the horizon. There are few more beautiful or striking subjects in England." Of this very curious remain of Saxon architecture, Pennant says, " The Castle is seated on the top of a steep knowl covered with wood; the entrance was by a drawbridge over a deep toss that environs it. The walls are seemingly circular, and have the remains of four small rounders. The keep is very singular-a lofty round tower, seven yards in diameter, within; on the outside, divided and strengthened by six great square buttresses, expands so as to give greater strength to the base. The door is a great height from the bottom, and accessible by a flight of thirty three steps from the outside. It seems of more modern work than the tower, so that probably there had been a drawbridge from some wall to this entrance. The floor is on a level with this door ; in the middle is a hole opening into a noisome dungeon, which is of a vast depth-at the bottom, a draw-well." Mr. King-no indifferent authority on these subjects-considers this Castle one of the most ancient as well as most perfect reliques of antiquity in the kingdom. The ruins and site of the fortress now belong to the Duke of Leeds. It is situated on the banks of the river Don, midway between Doncaster and Rotherham. Conisbrough Castle is a medieval fortification in Conisbrough, South Yorkshire, England. The castle was initially built in the 11th century by William de Warenne, the Earl of Surrey, after the Norman conquest of England in 1066. Hamelin Plantagenet, the illegitimate, parvenu son of Henry II, acquired the property by marriage in the late 12th century. Hamelin and his son William rebuilt the castle in stone, including its prominent 28-metre (92 ft)-high keep. The castle remained in the family line into the 14th century, despite being seized several times by the Crown. The fortification was then given to Edmund of Langley, passing back into royal ownership in 1461. Conisbrough Castle fell into ruin, its outer wall badly affected by subsidence, and was given to the Carey family in the 16th century. Its derelict state prevented it from involvement in the English Civil War of the 17th century and the remains were bought by the Duke of Leeds in 1737. Sir Walter Scott used the location for his 1819 novel Ivanhoe and by the end of the 19th century the ruins had become a tourist attraction, despite the increasing industrial character of the area. The state took over the management of the property in 1950, but by the 1980s the visitor facilities were felt to be unsuitable, leading to a three-way partnership being created between the local council, the state agency English Heritage and a local charitable trust to develop the castle. The keep was re-roofed and re-floored in the 1990s with the help of European Union funding. English Heritage took over control of the castle in 2008 and continues to operate the property as a tourist attraction. The castle is made up of an inner and an outer bailey, the former surrounded by a stone curtain wall defended by six mural or fortified towers and the castle keep. The inner bailey would have included a hall, solar, chapel and other service buildings of which only the foundations survive. The design of Conisbrough's keep is unique in England, and the historians Oliver Creighton and Stephen Johnson consider it an "architectural gem" and "one of the finest examples of late Norman defensive architecture". The keep comprises a circular central tower with six massive buttresses; its four floors would have included a main chamber and a private chamber for the lord above it. Although militarily weak, the design would have been a powerful symbol of Hamelin Plantagenet's new social status as a major lord. SIZE: Image size in inches is 3 ¼ " x 4 ½ ", overall print size is 5 1/2" x 8 1/2 ". CONDITION: Condition is good. Blank on reverse. SHIPPING: Buyers to pay shipping/handling, domestic orders receives priority mail, international orders receive regular mail. Full payment details will be in our email after auction close. We pack properly to protect your item! Please note: the terms used in our auctions for engraving, heliogravure, lithograph, print, plate, photogravure etc. are ALL prints on paper, NOT blocks of steel or wood. ENGRAVINGS, the term commonly used for these paper prints, were the most common method in the 1700s and 1800s for illustrating old books, and these paper prints or "engravings" were inserted into the book with a tissue guard frontis, usually on much thicker quality rag stock paper, although many were also printed and issued as loose stand alone prints. A RARE VIEW FROM A SCENE OR CHARACTER IN SCOTTISH NOVELIST AUTHOR SIR WALTER SCOTT'S WAVERLEY NOVELS! !
Price: 11.99 USD
Location: New Providence, New Jersey
End Time: 2025-02-01T17:00:58.000Z
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Date of Creation: 1800-1899
Material: Engraving
Type: Print
