An Elizabethan Inheritance: The Hardwick Hall Textiles; Author: Levey, Santina M.; Paperback

Author: Levey, Santina M.
Paperback; Ill. (Chiefly Col.) Facsims., Ports. (Some Col.)
112 pages
Published: April 1998
Antique Collectors' Club
ISBN: 0707802490

Written by an acknowledged authority on the subject -- the former Keeper of the Department of Textiles at the Victoria and Albert MuseumThis authoritative account places the world's finest collection of 16th and early 17th century textiles in their original context. Santina Levey explains the social, economic and artistic environment in which the embroideries were created for Bess ofHardwick. Using account books, inventories, letters and personal reminiscences, Levey describes the origins of the different types of furnishings, unravels their complex meanings and looks at the inevitable alterations that four hundred years have wrought on them.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.