An Elizabethan Inheritance: Hardwick Hall Textiles - Softcover

Levey, Santina M.

 
9780707802497: An Elizabethan Inheritance: Hardwick Hall Textiles

Synopsis

Physical description; 112p : ill. (some col.), ports. ; 28 cm. Subjects; Hardwick Hall. Embroidery, Elizabethan — England — Derbyshire. Textile fabrics in interior decoration — England — Derbyshire — History — 16th century.

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About the Author

Santina Levey, FSA, worked at the V&A Museum for 20 years, the last nine of them as Keeper of the Department of Textiles. She was responsible for the collections of lace, embroidery and vestments, and also worked more generally with objects from the 16th and 17th centuries.

Synopsis

An Elizabethan Inheritance provides an account of the social, economic and artistic environment in which the owners of Hardwick Hall furnished the house with such sumptuous textiles.

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