Object number
70/178
Description
Tinted photograph of 6 painted roundels showing the first 6 months of the farming year. Manor House at Norbury, Derbyshire by John Fitzherbert.
This is a tinted photograph of six painted glass roundels showing the first six months of the farming year. These were roundels placed in the windows of the Manor House at Norbury, Derbyshire by John Fitzherbert, who inherited the site in 1483. Fitzherbert was the author of the first printed work on agriculture 'Boke of Husbonddrye' published in 1523.
Physical description
1 framed photograph
Archival history
MERL 'Handwritten accession' form (Institute of Agricultural History) – 'Photograph, Tinted // Domestic furnishing pictures // Gift C. Fitzherbert, Street House, Mortimer, Berks // Description: Painted Glass Roundels. C15th. Tinted photograph of six painted glass roundels showing the first six months of the farming year. Januarius- figure seated by fire. Februarius- figure with breast plough. Marius- figure with printing hook. Aprilie- figure with seed heads? Sowing. Mayus- figure with flowers and bird. Junius- figure with weeding tool? // Dimensions: Mount divided into 6 parts, Black frame. 42x60.5cm, each window 17x17cm // Associated information: Painted glass roundels placed in the windows of the Manor House at Norbury, Derbyshire by John Fitzherbert who inherited the estate from his father in 1483 as 14th Lord of the Manor. Fitzherbert was the author of the first printed work on agriculture, ‘Boke of Hunsbondrye’ published in 1523.’
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- L:\MERL\Objects\JISC 2012\60 series negatives\60_14989.tif - High resolution image
