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30 de mar. de 2021 · Hear the story of Bess of Hardwick who rose from a modest background to become a close friend of Queen Elizabeth I, keeper and confidant to Mary Queen of Sco...
- 7 min
- 1808
- Chesterfield Borough Council
From Bess's mistake here, in 1580, we see a brief glimpse of one of the ways she could actually receive a letter. This letter came to her directly, unopened, and into her own hands (i.e. it was not processed by a scribe or secretary first, or read to her by a family member or upper servant).
Conserving Hardwick Old Hall. Hardwick Old Hall has undergone a 7 month long conservation project to protect the Hall's 400-year-old plaster friezes. Once the finest of their age, and a display of Bess of Hardwick's status and wealth, the Old Hall’s decorative plaster panels have long been exposed to the elements for two centuries.
This Elizabethan-revival frame of 1865 was conceived by George Scharf, Secretary and later Director of the National Portrait Gallery, in collaboration with Henry Critchfield, the Gallery's framemaker. It is an unusual instance of antiquarian framing by the Gallery in its early days. The picture is an early copy of the portrait of 'Bess of ...
Some context is provided by their cost: it is perhaps an unfair comparison but, whereas the Hardwick Abrahams cost 14s. and 20s. per ell, the royal set was valued at the time of the Commonwealth sales in 1649–50 at almost £10 per ell. Whereas Henry’s tapestries were supplied by Willem de Kempeneer, one of the foremost Brussels entrepreneurs, Bess’s tapestries have an unknown maker’s ...
From: Bess of Hardwick (Chatsworth House, Derbyshire ) Born Elizabeth Hardwick (in c.1521/2, d. 13 February 1608), the woman known to posterity as Bess of Hardwick married four times during her life, as a result of which her name changed from Hardwick to Barlow (or Barley), Cavendish, St Loe and then finally (when she was countess of Shrewsbury and then dowager countess) Talbot.
Bess of Hardwick. BORN: 1527 • Derbyshire, England. DIED: February 13, 1608 • Derbyshire, England. English landowner. Elizabeth Hardwick, known as Bess of Hardwick, rose from modest origins to become the wealthiest woman in Elizabethan England after the queen herself. Bess owned enormous estates on which she built magnificent great houses ...
