Monday, July 10, 2006

 


This is Chatsworth House where they filmed Pride and Prejudice. Being that it is a Saturday in July there were about 20,000 visitors to the estate and it hardly seemed crowded. There were people from all over the world touring the house and gardens. I was amazing that the estate was used in WWII to house evacuated children from London and other cities. They also had Egyptian tablets with hieroglyphics, sphinx stone statues, a Hellenic foot from the 300 BC and a trompe l'oeil on an oak door of a violin. Of all the art the Dutchess in the 1920's saved a pen and ink drawing of herself done at a picnic and it surpassed all the great masters because it was done with love and you felt you knew her seeing that drawing.

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