Archive for the tag 'The Upper Drawing-room'

The first photograph shows the Elizabethan carving above the chimney-piece in the Red Drawing-room:

The main panel is a gruesome Dance of Death, showing a skeleton trampling on the symbols of earthly vanity, such as a papal crown, orb and sceptre, mitre, weapons of war,  etc.  The figures on either side are the Just, being received [...]

8 Comments CherryPie on Jul 14th 2010