M0007944: Manor Farmyard, c.1460

Previous title, replaced September 2020: Manor Farmyard, circa 1460

Reproduction of an illustration of a manor farmyard. The man and woman in the background are beating copper pans to make the swarming bees settle down. Reproduced in Dorez, Leon: Les manuscrits a peintures de la bibliotheque de Lord Leicester a Holkham Hall, Norfolk, Paris, E. Leroux, 1908

23 June 1941

2 photographs glass plate negative; 18.5 x 14 cm photographic print; 15.5 x 11 cm

Catalogue data comes from a combination of entries in the original glass plate registers, metadata created when the glass plates were digitised in the early 2000s and enhancements made by the cataloguer in 2020.

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