Reconstructed Interior of Fourteenth-century Hall (Penshurst, Kent). details

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Image title: Reconstructed Interior of Fourteenth-century Hall (Penshurst, Kent).
Source: Hartlet, Dorothy and Elliot, Margaret M.: “Life and Work of the People of England: The Fourteenth Century” (1929)
Place shown: Penshurst, Kent, England
Keywords: interiors, windows, halls, manors, people, colour, wallpaper, backgrounds
Status: copyright registered to Dorothy Hartley and Margaret M. Elliot

Notes:

The lord and lady are dining on the daïs, the retainers grouped round the hearth. Notice the dog and the jester.

From a model of the Great Hall at Penshurst. Metropolitan Museum of Fine Arts, New York.

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