A Son of the Rock

Just a few shots from inside Chatsworth House.

The first is a stairway which you meet very soon after the entrance when you make the tour.

As a scientist this interested me. It’s one of two cabinets of minerals collected by Georgiana, first wife of the 5th Duke of Devonshire, the one they made a film about recently.

This was an annexe off the small Library, complete with Steinway piano.

And this is the old chapel with a prominent keyboard instrument (spinet? virginal? clavichord? I don’t think it’s a harpsichord) and a sculpture whose subject I’ve forgotten. The sculpture has only recently been moved into the chapel but the guidebook isn’t forthcoming and neither are Wikipedia nor Flickr.

Part of the ceiling in the old chapel, typical of the elaborate painted ceilings in the house.