Drayton Manor, Staffordshire
Samuel A. Rayner (b. Colnbrook fl.1821 – Windsor 1874)
Category
Art / Prints
Date
Unknown
Materials
ink & paper
Measurements
290 x 410 mm
Place of origin
Derby
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Calke Abbey, Derbyshire
NT 286632.11
Summary
Lithographs, Drayton Manor, Staffordshire by Samuel A. Rayner (b. Colnbrook fl.1821 – Windsor 1874). Set of lithographs published by M. Webster, Derby. Drayton Manor, by S. Rayner. Dedicated to the Conservatives, being the residence of Sir Robert Peel. Some figures are shown on horseback, the porche cochere of the house behind them. There are two copies of this print j and k.The manor of Drayton was owned from the time of the Norman Conquest by the Bassett family until in the 13th century. The male line failed and Margaret Bassett heiress to the estate married Edmund Lord Stafford. The estate remained in the ownership of the Earl of Stafford until the attainder and execution of the Duke of Buckingham (the 7th Earl) in 1483, when it passed to the Crown. Thereafter several owners, and from about 1600, the Earl of Essex. The latter's descendants sold the estate in about 1790 to Robert Peel (1750–1830) a Lancashire textile manufacturer, who was MP for Tamworth 1790-1820. Following his death in 1830, his son Robert Peel (1788–1850), who followed his father into the Tamworth seat and later became Prime Minister, demolished the old manor house and its three storey banqueting house, and replaced it with a grand mansion (incorporating a three storey tower) designed in the Elizabethan style by Robert Smirke. The house ceased to be the principal residence of the Peel family and in 1929 it was demolished
Marks and inscriptions
Dedicated to Conservatives
Makers and roles
Samuel A. Rayner (b. Colnbrook fl.1821 – Windsor 1874), artist Moses Webster (Derby 1792 - Derby 1870), engraver and publisher