Tabley House Collection

A unique University of Manchester collection in Cheshire.18th & 19thC paintings, decorative arts, costume, library & grand interiors! Weddings @TableyHouseWedd

[Tabley House Collection @TableyHouse]

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[Simon Donohue @SimonDonohue]

Pictures from the final @KnutsfordRaces at @TableyHouse https://t.co/vxAeXll8d7

[Ricky Craig Pound @whitegoldsword]

Guided Tours of Pope's Grotto and
Marble Hill House.

Pope's Grotto Preservation Trust and English Heritage are pleased to announce joint tours of Alexander Pope's grotto and Marble Hill House together with its grotto. This is a unique opportunity to visit two 18th century grottos and one of the most important Palladian villas, accompanied by expert guides.

The tour will start at 10 am at Pope's Grotto followed by a visit to St Mary's Church in Twickenham to view Pope's final resting place and memorials to his parents.
Visitors can then have lunch in the many bars and restaurants in picturesque Church Street or at Marble Hill's Coach House Café (please note lunch is not included in the ticket price).

In the afternoon, you will enjoy a guided tour of Henrietta Howard's neo-Palladian Villa and end the experience with a visit to the recently-restored garden grotto, finishing at about 3:15 pm. There are three offerings from April to August. Tickets cost £35 and there's a timetable for the day in each event's listing on TicketSource.

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We love the web resource 'At the Circulating Library'! Our latest blog about Margaret Leicester Warren's 1860 review of Cranford wouldn't be half as interesting without it! @3VolumeNovel @shelvesofbooks @TableyHouse
https://t.co/JGaNZNW2Yh

[Ronan Beckman 📖✍️📚 @ronanbeckman]

Instead of writing, I am being an art detective🕵️‍♂️. I am thrilled as I discovered a Martin Archer Shee painting wrongly sold in 2013 by Sotheby's as the work of John Opie in NYC 1st Feb 2013. The print on the left was from 1825 catalogue of @TableyHouse artworks by J. Young. 🥳

[Tabley House Collection @TableyHouse]

The original was once a favourite in the collection of Sir John Fleming Leicester's at Tabley. Nice to see it in this form, in the public realm again!

[Ricky Craig Pound @whitegoldsword]

On display at the Twickenham Museum is this lovely canvas reproduction of JMW Turner’s ‘Pope’s Villa at Twickenham’. (1808). It depicts Alexander Pope’s famous villa in a state of dilapidation with its windows broke, ceiling caved in and scaffolding in place. The then owner, Baroness Howe, had decided that she was fed up of visitors turning up to see Pope‘s famous Villa, grotto and garden, so she decided to demolish the villa much to JMW Turner’s fury.

To the left are a group of figures. One holds a Corinthian capital whilst the second keeps hold of an empty gilded picture frame. The inference is that these items have been ‘liberated’ from Pope’s Villa by the duo.

Lady Howe was known locally as ‘Queen of the Goths’ because of this act of vandalism to Pope’s iconic building.

JMWTurner would also write poetry eulogising the villa and condemning the author of its destruction.

He would also take a cutting from Pope’s famous weeping willow tree and plant it around his own small pools at his garden at Sandycombe Lodge,
@TwickMuseum @TurnersHouse

[Art UK @artukdotorg]

Today's #OnlineArtExchange is portraits of artists and patrons for Turner 250: The Artist and his early Patron @TableyHouse

Read about the Tabley House collection 👉 https://t.co/1OKtg7Ej7i

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[National Portrait Gallery @NPGLondon]

A rare self-portrait amongst his iconic landscapes…

This week we’re supporting the @TableyHouse exhibition, celebrating 250 years of J.M.W. Turner for this week’s #OnlineArtExchange @artdotorguk.

📷 circa 1790, © National Portrait Gallery, London

[Tabley House Collection @TableyHouse]

A nice piece on #Turner250 which ties into our current exhibition 'Turner250: The Artist and his Early Patron' at The Tabley House Collection #knutsford https://t.co/fJsrXoXaa5

[Tabley House Collection @TableyHouse]

In the run up to Turner’s 250th birthday next week we are celebrating ‘Windy Day’, our oil painting commission by JMW Turner. If you can’t visit the real thing @TableyHouse, you can purchase prints of the artwork here https://t.co/jvvr0px2Ka
@artukdotorg (top row, 4th along).

[Tabley House Collection @TableyHouse]

Tabley celebrates unique connection to painter JMW Turner. Thank you @KnutsfordNews for the write up for #Turner250 #Knutsford @OfficialUoM
https://t.co/63ryZUKNa6

[Tabley House Collection @TableyHouse]

Now showing! Yesterday we opened our #Turner250 exhibition for 2025, celebrating artist JMW Turner and his early patron John F Leicester. Showing new research, an original letter with sketches, quotes and early career commission 'Windy Day'. @OfficialUoM @ArtHistoryUoM

[Tabley House Collection @TableyHouse]

With just over a month until we open our doors again to the public (3rd April 2025) we are finishing off large conservation projects and installing our #Turner250 displays. Time to plan your visit to Tabley, where Turner himself stayed in 1808!

[Tabley House Collection @TableyHouse]

Happy New Year to all of our followers, supporters and visitors! 2025 sounds very futuristic but full of promise. This year we hope to continue to share our art and heritage, bridge cultural and historical gaps and inspire our local, University and international communities.

[Tabley House Collection @TableyHouse]

@Paul__Browning_ Hopefully this won't prevent you from following your photographic calling - stay positive - there's always a way.

[Tabley House Collection @TableyHouse]

We are now closed to the general public and entering our conservation season. Let the work begin!
The house reopens to the public next year on Thursday 3rd April 2025. We accept research enquiries, group bookings, weddings and event bookings all year round.

[Art UK @artukdotorg]

Read about the 'vulgar ghosts' of Tabley Old Hall in this new story by @shelvesofbooks 👉https://t.co/WvxnIIV81g 👻

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📷 @TableyHouse

[Tabley House Collection @TableyHouse]

Our support goes out to The Smoker pub, Plumley Nr Knutsford. With so much shared history we very much hope that the blaze was contained and much of this historic building saved. The name 'The Smoker' comes from the racehorse gifted to Lord de Tabley by the Prince Regent.

[Warrington Guardian @warringtonnews]

'Avoid the area' - Pub evacuated after thatched roof catches fire https://t.co/SHIs1je78k

[Tabley House Collection @TableyHouse]

@arthistorynews Apologies for the delay! (Small team) Thank you for your reply! Do get in touch if you plan to be nearby again, we will open the shutters especially :)

[Tabley House Collection @TableyHouse]

The gallery was sold on his death in 1827 but reviews and records of the gallery still exist, as do the collections that were amassed to fill it. The property is now to let, spotted by our Collections Officer on her recent trip to Frieze Masters.

[Tabley House Collection @TableyHouse]

Hill Street, Mayfair. This building was once residence to John Fleming Leicester who opened a gallery of British Art here in 1818, possibly the only one of its kind at the time, to display works by British artists to a select public. Yes public. #BritishArt #Regency