Archives » Tapestries

Oxburgh Hall, Norfolk (iii)

Mary, Queen of Scots was held in custody in Oxburgh Hall and worked on tapestries there with Bess of Hardwick. The black lines are joins in the glass behind which the tapestries are displayed:-

Oxburgh Hall, Tapestry

Oxburgh Hall Tapestry , Norfolk

Portraits of Mary and Bess. (The lighting conditions were not conducive to a good photo):-

Oxburgh Hall, Bess of Hardwick & Mary Queen of Scots

This tree in the grounds of the Hall had a huge hole in its trunk:-

Tree by Oxburgh Hall

 

Holyrood Palace Tapestries

Many of the rooms in Holyrood Palace are hung with tapestries:-

Palace of Holyroodhouse,Tapestry , Edinburgh

Tapestry, Holyrood Palace

Tapestries, Holyrood Palace

This room also contained a piano (or spinet or clavichord):-

More Tapestries and a Piano, Holyrood Palace

free hit counter script