Well, this week’s been a little more eventful with a day trip to Melbourne to see the Egyptian exhibition at the NGV, not to mention a little bit of 'fun' when I upgraded my Ubuntu machine to Noble Numbat.
As this week ends with a public holiday, I didn’t have a session at the Athenaeum this Friday, but I did have a productive day at Lakeview where I started on what’s been designated the nursery.
Most of the contents of Lakeview are inevitably props, which means that the rooms have been ‘dressed’ to give an impression of what they would have been like in late Victorian times, rather than the contents being directly associated with the house.
That said, the nursery contents, like the main bedroom are mostly in period with some contemporary children's dolls and a battered Winsor and Newton water colour set, which can be dated to the last thirty or so years of the nineteenth century, as not only is it by appointment to Queen Victoria - a more than reasonable watercolourist - but also to the Prince and Princess of Wales.
Personally, I struggle to see the future Edward VII as a watercolour artist - gin, champagne and fornication seem to have been much more his thing, but Queen Alexandra did dabble, so there’s perhaps a little bit of truth in the claimed royal connection ...
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