[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":11},["ShallowReactive",2],{"blog-post-chatsworth-countess":3},{"_type":4,"body":5,"bodyHtml":6,"excerpt":5,"featuredImage":5,"publishedAt":7,"slug":8,"tags":9,"title":10},"blogPost",null,"While I was in \u003Ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derbyshire\">Derbyshire\u003C/a> with Stuart and my parents, we went around \u003Ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chatsworth_House\">Chatsworth\u003C/a>, which is one of the biggest, grandest English country houses you can imagine. (You might also know it as Pemberley, in the BBC's \u003Ci>Pride & Prejudice\u003C/i>.) I managed to get a little bit ahead of the rest of the group at one point and draw \u003Ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Anne_Sophia,_Countess_of_Carnarvon.jpg\">this Van Dyck painting\u003C/a>. (I added the fly; she looked a bit bored.)\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/Chatsworth_portrait_zps7797e500-d211064c99.gif\">\\r\n\\r\nAh, here's the original, in the dining room. \\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/peaks14_chatsworth_banquet_zps2245a2f9-5a6b51f4c7.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\n\u003C!--more Click here for more under the cut!-->\\r\nIllustrator \u003Ca href=\"http://www.cathybrett.co.uk/\">Cathy Brett\u003C/a> is doing daily doodles of old masterpieces and spending a lot more time on them. (Her painting of Fragonard's \u003Ci>The Swing\u003C/i> took her about three hours.) Go over to her blog and have a peek, I think she's going to be posting a few more soon. (She's posted them on Twitter as \u003Ca href=\"https://twitter.com/gingerdoodles\">@gingerdoodles\u003C/a>.) Here's the \u003Ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Swing_%28painting%29\">original painting\u003C/a>, for comparison.\\r\n\\r\n\u003Ca href=\"http://www.cathybrett.co.uk/\">\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/cathy_doodle_zpsbe03a164-0e9c4687e0.jpg\">\u003C/a>\\r\n\\r\nAnd here are Stuart and me, pretending we are gentry and surveying our vast lands. \\r\n\u003Ci>- Do you want to move in, dear? \\r\n-Nah. \\r\n-Imagine running this place. It would be, like, a zillion full-time jobs.\u003C/i>\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/peaks14_chatsworth_stu_me_zps5bbba506-5c50f7f2ab.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nAh, and here are the parents.\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/peaks14_chatsworth_parents_zps0ffd78f8-5c961ee9ea.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nI think this was my favourite curiosity in the house, the devil's pram. It's serpent themed (which is the theme of the family crest) and about as macabre a childhood object as one could ever hope for. I bet it freaked out the nannies.\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/peaks14_chatsworth_pram_zpsa24955ec-8621805bf5.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nOkay, this library is a bit more enviable. I could spend some happy hours in there. \\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/peaks14_chatsworth_library_zps8762f7dd-ffa5d60ec7.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nAnd here's a smaller study with cool tiles on the floor. But check out that white pointy thing by the fireplace. That's a \u003Ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narwhal\">narhwal\u003C/a> tusk! It goes all the way to the floor. I had NO IDEA narwhal tusks were so long. There were two of them. Unicorns of the sea. I drew a confused-looking narwhal into \u003Ci>Oliver and the Seawigs\u003C/i> by mistake, and Philip Reeve changed the text so we wouldn't have to get rid of the narwhal.\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/peaks14_chatsworth_library2_zps12b797fb-5dfd181396.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nWe had a big walk around the grounds, then ended our visit as all English holiday visits end. You can read some more Derbyshire blog posts \u003Ca href=\"http://jabberworks.livejournal.com/634717.html\">here\u003C/a>, \u003Ca href=\"http://jabberworks.livejournal.com/634049.html\">here\u003C/a> and \u003Ca href=\"http://jabberworks.livejournal.com/632285.html\">here\u003C/a>.\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/peaks14_chatsworth_lollies_zpsddc766e2-d843237250.jpg\">","2014-05-01T06:36:00.000Z","chatsworth-countess",[],"chatsworth countess",1776628727475]