Items matching beds

The Apartments of Mary Queen of Scots in Holyrood Palace

The bedroom of a Queen! An ancient bed hung with faded crimson silk stands in Queen Mary’s bed-chamber, together with chairs and other furniture of a later date. Under the raised tapestry on the far [...]

Keywords: interiors, beds, colour, wallpaper, backgrounds

Places shown: Holyrood Palace; Edinburgh; Lothian; Scotland

Added: 2007-10-01

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1141.—Bed.

“Of the domestic furniture of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries the beds of the nobility (Figs. 1141, 1142) were most lavishly adorned. The simple form was that of a railed box, or crib; the “b [...]

Keywords: furniture, beds, people

Places shown: none

Added: 2006-09-12

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1142.—Bed.

“Of the domestic furniture of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries the beds of the nobility (Figs. 1141, 1142) were most lavishly adorned. The simple form was that of a railed box, or crib; the “b [...]

Keywords: furniture, beds, people

Places shown: none

Added: 2007-04-25

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O Waken, Waken, Burd Isbel

“O it fell once upon a day     Burd Isbel fell asleep, An’ up it starts the Billy Blind,     An’ stood at her bed-feet. ‘O waken, waken, Burd Isbel,     How can you sleep so soun’, Whan this is Bekie’ [...]

Keywords: interiors, beds, people, furniture

Places shown: none

Added: 2006-05-15

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In winter I get up at night / And dress by yellow candle-light.

In this illustration a small child, probably a girl, stands barefoot by a bed illuminated by the yellow glow of a candle; she is in the process of getting dressed in the dark, by the light of the cand [...]

Keywords: illustrations for children, children, poetry, bare feet, people, interiors, beds, bedrooms, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2007-03-08

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Room in which Lawrence Washington was born, Sulgrave Manor

“It was in this rrom that Lawrence Washington, sone of Robert, and great-great-great grandfather of George Washington, was born.” (p. 106) “Lawrence Washington, of Gray’s Inn, lived in or near Northa [...]

Keywords: interiors, beds

Places shown: Sulgrave; Oxfordshire; England

Added: 2006-06-27

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