Artwork at Marble Hill Gallery

Manchurian Crane J920149

MARBLE HILL HOUSE, Richmond-Upon-Thames. Manchurian Crane in a chinese landscape. Watercolour and gouache on black paper. Referred to as Ch'ien-lung (Qianlong) era after the Ching (Qing) Dynasty Emperor who ruled between 1735 and 1796

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Bird, China, Chinoiserie, Flower, Painting

Leslie - Jeanie Deans Pleading with Queen Caroline J940116

MARBLE HILL HOUSE, Twickenham, Richmond, Middlesex. "Jeanie Deans Pleading with Queen Caroline... in the Presence of the Duke of Argyll and Lady Suffolk" by Charles Robert LESLIE (1794-1859). The painting depicts a scene from Sir Walter Scott's 1818 novel The Heart of Midlothian

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Costume, Fashion, Painting

Henrietta-Maria and dwarf, Sir Jeffrey Hudson J900214

MARBLE HILL HOUSE, Richmond-upon-Thames, Greater London. "Queen Henrietta Maria and the Dwarf Sir Jeffrey Hudson" after Sir Anthony VAN DYCK (1599-1641). Henrietta-Maria (1609-69) was daughter of Henri IV of France and wife of Charles I of England. Sir Jeffrey Hudson (1619-82) is recorded to have been only 18 or 19 inches (46cm) tall at the age of 30, unusually with no hint of disproportion or distorted physiognomy. He is later reported to have doubled his height. In 1626 he was served in a pie to the royal couple and soon afterwards entered the service of the queen. After a life of adventures, including military service, a duel, exile, slavery, and imprisonment as a Catholic, his death is unrecorded

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