Feather frieze, A La Ronde
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Feather frieze, A La Ronde
Image: © Derek Harper Taken: 28 May 2011
This must have taken a long time. The frieze uses feathers "from many species of birds, including game birds, fowl, jays and parrots, laboriously stuck down with isinglass" http://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/main/w-alaronde . Like the extraordinary shell gallery (Image), the work of the eccentric cousins Jane and Mary Parminter.
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Image Location
Latitude
50.64085
Longitude
-3.40992