Chatsworth Through Time, Episode Five: The 6th Duke

Explore Five Hundred Years of Art and Architecture at a Historic Estate

Chatsworth Through Time, produced in partnership with the Duke of Devonshire and the Chatsworth House Trust, explores the history, architecture, landscape, and collections of Chatsworth House. Beginning in the Tudor Period and progressing through five hundred years of history all the way to the 21st century, this series explores the world of Chatsworth, with its own curators, Alice Martin, Head of the Devonshire Collection, and Dr. Alex Hodby, Senior Curator of Programme, as our guides.

Episode Five: The 6th Duke follows the life and works of William George Spencer Cavendish, son of Lady Georgiana, who took on the grandest building projects of the estate in the 19th century. He collaborated with the architect Jeffry Wyatville as well as Joseph Paxton, who became head gardener at Chatsworth and later designed the Crystal Palace at the Great Exhibition in London. In addition to the meticulous documentation of his renovations at Chatsworth, the 6th Duke is also notable for his travel journals and for serving as the ambassador at the coronation of Czar Nicholas I in Moscow in 1826.

Sponsors

The ICAA is very grateful to Chadsworth Incorporated and Lisa Fine Textiles for their generous support of this program.

This program was made possible by The Estate of Christopher H. Browne & The Orville Gordon Browne Foundation.

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