A lithograph showing a view of Belvoir Castle, Leicestershire. A large tree is shown in the foreground to the left, with a smaller group of trees shown to the right. A male figure, with dog and rifle, is shown walking to the lower right, with further figures shown behind. Belvoir Castle is shown in the background, at the top of a hill and surrounded by trees.
Inscribed below: From near a Tree on the new Turf drive between the Old Grantham Road and the new path to Woolsthorpe
Inscribed lower right: F.W. Trench Ap: 1819

Trench was a colonel in the British army, a Tory MP, and an amateur artist and architect who proposed several radical improvement schemes for London. He was a close friend of the 5th Duke of Rutland and spent much time at Belvoir Castle, where in 1819 he produced five lithographs of the estate. ‘Pen-and-ink’ lithography (as here) had largely lost favour by this date, as artists were starting to use the new 'chalk manner' technique. The Royal Collection holds a set of five views of Belvoir Castle by Trench, comprising of eleven lithographs with either 2 or 3 impressions of each view, all printed on silk.