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Autochromes of Welbeck's Gardens
Exhibition
Gardens for the Duchess
27 Aug 2016 – 23 Oct 2016
Regular hours
- Saturday
- 10:00 – 17:00
- Sunday
- 10:00 – 16:00
- Tuesday
- 10:00 – 17:00
- Wednesday
- 10:00 – 17:00
- Thursday
- 10:00 – 17:00
- Friday
- 10:00 – 17:00
Cost of entry
Free
Address
- The Harley Gallery, Welbeck Estate
- nr Worksop, Nottinghamshire
- Nottinghamshire
- S80 3LW
- United Kingdom
In celebration of the ‘Year of the Garden’ we are delighted to share rare stereoscopic autochrome photographs of the Edwardian gardens at Welbeck, dating from 1911–1928.
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In celebration of the ‘Year of the Garden’ we are delighted to share rare stereoscopic autochromes of the Edwardian gardens at Welbeck, dating from 1911-1928.
Among the many works of art in the Portland Collection, a plain mahogany, upright, table-top box could easily be overlooked. This particular box, with treasure hidden within, is a stereoscope or ‘Taxiphote’: two eyepieces allow a viewer to see stereoscopic photographs in astonishingly realistic three dimensions.
These extraordinary, brilliantly colourful images from the early years of the last century evoke a lost world of exquisite gardens, grace and generosity when the social life of Welbeck Abbey reached its greatest climax during the lifetimes of the 6th Duke of Portland and his beautiful Duchess.
