Knowsley Hall
near Prescot, Lancashire - Earl of Derby
"The family of the Stanleys, Earls of Derby, is sceond to none in the Peerage of England.
Knowsley Hall is finely and conspicuously situated in the hundred of West Derby,
in the county of Lancaster, and thence, and not from the town of Derby, the
Earl of Derby derives his title.
The principal part of the mansion was built by James, tenth Earl, in the reigns
of William the Third, Queen Anne and King George the Second.
The Stanleys were Lords paramount of the Isle of Man and the Isles, from the
reign of Henry the Fourth to that of George the Second, holding under the Crown
by the service of presenting two Falcons to the King on his coronation day."
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Bonded onto a rigid card support, with a conservation grade wash-lined mount.
With a conservation grade wash-lined mount, framed in a dark walnut and gold frame.