--- On Wed, 17/6/09, michaela de bruce <michaela.de.br...@gmail.com> wrote:
SNIPPED FOR BREVITY On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 7:22 PM, Elizabeth Walpole < ewalp...@grapevine.com.au> wrote: > I'm pretty sure this is from the decoration in the British Parliament, there > is a series of all the kings and queens of England and they all have a gold > background and a caption underneath, > I think it was done in the Victorian period but I don't know for sure. > Elizabeth COMMENT The "OLD" Houses of Parliament were burnt-down in a catastrophic fire in the early 1840's - 1842, I think, - leaving only Westminster Hall from the older buildings. A.W.N. Pugin was the Architect who did most of the detail design for the "new" Houses of Parliament. I had occasion to research this item while doing some family History Research. An ancestor of mine, a Stonemason from Bloxham, near Oxford, - being unable to find work in his local area, - "tramped-it" to London, sleeping in barns and under hedges - and got a job on the re-building of the "replacement" Houses of Parliament.He stayed on the job until the work on the new buildings were completed, and saved-up enough money from tha "long contract" to bring his sweetheart from Chipping Norton to London, and marry her in the church of St. Martin-in-the-Fields. So the pictures of the Kings and Queens of England you mention are of early Victorian date - though the Artists may have drawn upon older images. Cordially Julian Wilson, now dwelling in "old" Jersey. _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
