A 'hairwork' picture, worked in black and dark brown silks with the front of Nocton House on an ivory silk ground--18 x 22½in. (46 x 57cm.), in an elaborately carved giltwood frame, early 19th century

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A 'hairwork' picture, worked in black and dark brown silks with the front of Nocton House on an ivory silk ground--18 x 22½in. (46 x 57cm.), in an elaborately carved giltwood frame, early 19th century

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This picture must pre-date 1834 when the original Nocton Hall, near Sleaford in Lincolnshire, burned down. Nocton was the home of Frederick Robinson (Viscount Goderich) 1782-1859 who was prime minister between 1827 and 1828. The house was rebuilt in the 1840s.

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