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[101381] Hardwick Hall : Garden Statue
Hardwick Hall, Derbyshire
Statue, C18. One of six.
Brought to Hardwick from Chatsworth in 1868.
Grade ll listed.
The six statues are of various male and female antique figures, said to be Salome, Bacchus and the four Muses.
Who is this?
Hardwick was home to Bess of Hardwick (1527-1608), one of the most formidable women of Elizabethan England. She was the matriarch of the Cavendish family, building Chatsworth with her second husband and returning to build the two great halls at Hardwick after her separation from her fourth husband the 6th Earl of Shrewsbury.
[101381] Hardwick Hall : Garden Statue
Hardwick Hall, Derbyshire
Statue, C18. One of six.
Brought to Hardwick from Chatsworth in 1868.
Grade ll listed.
The six statues are of various male and female antique figures, said to be Salome, Bacchus and the four Muses.
Who is this?
Hardwick was home to Bess of Hardwick (1527-1608), one of the most formidable women of Elizabethan England. She was the matriarch of the Cavendish family, building Chatsworth with her second husband and returning to build the two great halls at Hardwick after her separation from her fourth husband the 6th Earl of Shrewsbury.