Drinking Horn from the Schroder Collection, © Strawberry Hill House and Photographer Matt Chung.
This visit to Strawberry Hill will concentrate on spectacular objets d’art from The Schroder Collection in this special exhibition, Treasures from Faraway: Medieval and Renaissance Objects. These are displayed in Horace Walpole’s ‘state rooms’ - the magnificent Gallery, Round Drawing Room and Tribune - reflecting how his now dispersed collections would have been seen Alongside, are old master paintings currently on loan from Dulwich Picture Gallery.
Details
Venue
Strawberry Hill, 268 Waldegrave Road, Twickenham, TW1 4ST
Event Organisers
Sarah Bowles and Philippa Barton
Cost
Cost of the visit is £40 - plus Eventbrite booking fee.
The cost does not include the train fare.
Programme
09.00am
Train departs from Waterloo Station for Strawberry Hill
10.00am
Coffee
10.30am
Visit to the exhibition Treasures from Faraway: Medieval and Renaissance Objects at Strawberry Hill with Dr Silvia Davoli, Research Curator.
Dr Silvia Davoli will discuss some of the marvellous and exotic objects from the celebrated Schroder Collection which include the Grandmont Reliquary, an owl coconut cup of 1556 and a rock crystal ewer with silver-gilt mounts of 1557/8. These treasures, made of diverse natural materials from far-off lands, would have formed part of a Cabinet of Curiosities, or Schatzkammer in the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. This tradition inspired Horace Walpole in the forming of his extraordinary collection of treasures at Strawberry Hill.
12.00noon - 2.00pm
Free time to explore Strawberry Hill House and the gardens, and to have lunch