3️⃣ Virgilia bewailing the absence of Coriolanus (1871), sculpture, Thomas Woolner. Commissioned by Lady Louisa Ashburton and acquired for the Stern family by the Duveen Brothers at the 1904 Ashburton Sale.

Pantry, Ground Floor

2️⃣ Detail from Heraldic roundels (1857) – glasswork by Thomas Baillie, featuring ‘FW’ (Frances Waldegrave) etched between the roundels, set against blue and crimson glass.

Round Drawing Room, First Floor.

Many of my favourite architectural details are still visible in the house today. Including...

1️⃣ Cornicing (1856) – architecture by Lady Waldegrave, with intricate vine designs in enriched plaster. Mr. Walpole’s Bedchamber, Second Floor.

📸: Matt Chung.

3️⃣ Wallpaper added by the Stern family that once adorned the Great North Bedchamber.

(Do get in touch if you know anything about the designer or manufacturer, as we are keen to know more!)

2️⃣ One of four quatrefoil windows installed by Lady Waldegrave in the Hall ceiling. Each represents England, Ireland, Scotland, and France with symbols: rose 🌹, shamrock ☘️, thistle, and fleur-de-lys ⚜️.

🧵A thread of some of my favourite highlights from the project...

1️⃣ Remnants of Lady Waldegrave’s 🕊️bird wallpaper in the passage connecting the cloisters to the former beauty room.

📸: Hélène Binet, Strawberry Hill, 04-11, digital c-print.

✨ The Stern & Waldegrave Collections Project page is live! ✨
Thanks to a Collections Grant from the Decorative Arts Society, Strawberry Hill House 🏰 catalogued 700+ #19thC artefacts from Lady Waldegrave & the Stern family! Explore the catalogue I created: strawberryhillhouse.org.uk/Stern-Waldeg... 📖

🖥️ Lastly, the online exhibition brings research case studies to life through a variety of interactive exhibits—spotlighting the contributions of Elizabeth Blackwell, Maria Sibylla Merian, Mary Somerset, Anna & Susannah Lister, Ellen & Margery Power, & Henrietta London. reconstructingsloane.org/women

🔍 The dataset establishes a foundation for enhancing the representation of women within Hans Sloane’s collections through the SLKB, offering a snapshot of the various ways women are documented and represented. reconstructingsloane.org/women/download

📖 A Guide to Finding Women in the SLKB serves as a practical starting point for researchers and outlines the methods I used to trace women’s contributions. reconstructingsloane.org/women/download

Very proud to share the resources I've developed as a #SloaneLab 🔬research fellow at UCL for my project "In the Margins of Early Modern Science: Pioneering Women in Sloane’s ‘Paper Museum’" 📜🌿 at ReconstructingSloane.org/women