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      <image:caption>The French Garden House in 2023. Photo © M. Corber.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Buildings and Structures - The French Garden House - The summer house and matched plant rooms continue the romantic theme, as did a statue of Mercury once carefully placed to be reflected mirror in the octagonal central room.</image:title>
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      <image:title>Buildings and Structures - The French Garden House - Vintage photo of the French Garden from the Earl’s Collection © Mount Edgcumbe House</image:title>
      <image:caption>Early photograph showing the central feature of the French garden, a fountain of water springin springing from a rock base intermixed with shells</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Buildings and Structures - The French Garden House - Ornamental urn in the French Garden</image:title>
      <image:caption>Ornamental urn © Jules 2020</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Buildings and Structures - The French Garden House</image:title>
      <image:caption>This early photograph from the Earl’s Collection provides some sense of how the romantic sentiment in the French garden was generated. Image © Mount Edgcumbe House</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>The French Garden House viewed from the side through a mass of foliage © Karl Beeney 2022</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Buildings and Structures - The English Garden House</image:title>
      <image:caption>The English Garden House © Sue Rowlands 2017</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Garden House in the Wilderness (centre). Detail from Badeslade 1737</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>The centre part of the English Garden House served as a banqueting centre (possibly by Badeslade, c. 1735 but more probably by Edmund Prideaux, c. 1730)</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>The sunken bath in the English Garden House</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>The side elevation of the English Garden house in 2023</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>The southern elevation of the English Garden House</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Buildings and Structures - Mount Edgcumbe House</image:title>
      <image:caption>Mount Edgcumbe House 1685  by G. Van Edema (Plymouth City Museum and Art Gallery) (detail)</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Buildings and Structures - Mount Edgcumbe House - Engraving of Mount Edgcumbe House published in Ackermans’s Repository (R. Ackerman &amp; Co. 1826)</image:title>
      <image:caption>Print of Mount Edgcumbe House produced in 1826 by Ackermann &amp; Co.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>The Conservatory added in the 1840s. Image from the Earl’s Collection © Mount Edgcumbe House</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Buildings and Structures - Mount Edgcumbe House</image:title>
      <image:caption>Eastern Elevation (Morris c. 1880) (Getty Research Institute)</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>The house before restoration . The outer walls of the western extension can be seen. Image from the Earl’s collection © Mount Edgcumbe House</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Buildings and Structures - The Garden Battery - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>The Garden Battery viewed from the Hamoaze</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Buildings and Structures - The Garden Battery - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>1820s print of the Blockhouse, showing the roof of the Saluting Platform to the left of the image</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>The vaulted interior of the Garden Battery.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>People who shaped Mt Edgcumbe - Mavis Batey MBE - A spell breaking commercial codes demonstrated Mavis’ talents for code-breaking and she was sent to the newly established Bletchley Park to join the Enigma research team led by Dilly Knox, where she excelled. Commenting on the work of Mavis Lever, and her colleague Margaret Rock, Knox said “Give me a Lever and a Rock and I can move the universe”.</image:title>
      <image:caption>Codebreakers at work at Bletchley</image:caption>
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      <image:title>People who shaped Mt Edgcumbe - Mavis Batey MBE - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Keith and Mavis Batey</image:caption>
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      <image:title>People who shaped Mt Edgcumbe - Mavis Batey MBE - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Image © Royal United Services Institute, where Mavis Batey gave an address in December 2011</image:caption>
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      <image:title>People who shaped Mt Edgcumbe - Mavis Batey MBE - Mavis Batey was the author of many books and articles. The eighteenth and early nineteenth century were a particular interest of Mavis Batey, writes co-author David Lambert, especially the relationship between landscape and literature. Her books include: Oxford Gardens: The University's Influence on Garden History (1982) The English Garden Tour (1990, with David Lambert) Arcadian Thames (1994, with H Buttery, D Lambert, and K Wilkie) Regency Gardens (1995) Jane Austen and the English Landscape (1996) Alexander Pope: the Poet and the Landscape (1999)</image:title>
      <image:caption>The cover of Mavis Batey’s 1996 book</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Hidden History - Royals visit Mount Edgcumbe - Cosimo III painted in 1660 by Giusto Sustermans. The painting is in the public domain.</image:title>
      <image:caption>Cosimo III painted in 1660 by Giusto Sustermans. The painting is in the public domain.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Hidden History - Royals visit Mount Edgcumbe - George III &amp; Charlotte Mecklenburg-Strelitz painted at the wedding by Joshua Reynolds in 1761. Seventeen year old Charlotte had arrived in England just hours before the nuptials but the relationship was to last 57 years and produce 15 children. The painting is held in the Royal Collection and is in the public domain.</image:title>
      <image:caption>George III &amp; Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz at their wedding, by Sir Joshua Reynolds. The painting is held in the Royal Collection and is in the public domain.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Hidden History - Royals visit Mount Edgcumbe - The Interior of a Large Country House (Great Hall, Mount Edgcumbe) by John Scarlett Davis (1804-1845) © Mount Edgecombe House</image:title>
      <image:caption>This was the Saloon where King George III and Queen Charlotte would have dined.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Hidden History - Royals visit Mount Edgcumbe - Napoleon III depicted by Franz Xaver Winterhalter ca. 1853. The painting is held in the Napoleonic Museum and is in the public domain.</image:title>
      <image:caption>Napoleon III, painted by Franz Xaver Winterhalter. ca. 1853. The painting is held in the Napoleonic Museum and is in the public domain.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Hidden History - Royals visit Mount Edgcumbe - Queen Victoria in a painting executed in 1859 by Franz Xaver Winterhalter and now held in the Royal Collection (RCIN 405131) and in the public domain.</image:title>
      <image:caption>Queen Victoria visited Mount Edgcumbe on a number of occasions. Here she ieatures in a painting by Franz Xaver Winterhalter now held in the Royal Collection (RCIN 405131) and in the public domain.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Hidden History - Royals visit Mount Edgcumbe - A watercolour showing the Royal Yacht 'Victoria and Albert I', the royal barge and other shipping, with a distant view of Mount Edgcumbe. On 30 August 1843 the Queen and Prince Albert sailed up Plymouth Sound and anchored off Mount Edgcumbe, which the Queen described in her journal as 'the most lovely place imaginable'. The painting is signed 'N Cond...' [paper torn]</image:title>
      <image:caption>The painting is attributed to Nicholas Condy (1793-1857). The artist’s son, Nicholas Matthews Condy (1816-1851) also painted Mount Edgcumbe on a number of occasions. The image here (RCIN 920162) is held in the Royal Collection Trust / © His Majesty King Charles III 2022</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Hidden History - Royals visit Mount Edgcumbe - A watercolour By Queen Victoria, painted from the Royal Yacht. Queen Victoria had sailed from Osborne House to Devon with her husband, Prince Albert and some of their children on 19 July 1852. The painting depicts Mount Edgcumbe country park from Plymouth Harbour. Trees are shown covering the top of a cliff, to the right.</image:title>
      <image:caption>The image (RCIN 980055.bk) is held in the Royal Collection Trust / © His Majesty King Charles III 2024</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Hidden History - Mining - a great source of wealth for the Edgcumbes</image:title>
      <image:caption>Photo of miners and balmaidens from Dolcoath Mine, Camborne, c. 1900</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Women spalling (left), cobbing (centre), picking (right) and bucking (back right). Engraving of Dolcoath Mine by Thomas Allom circa 1831</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Bal maidens spalling, and loading ore wagon at Carn Brea 1880. Image reproduced from Harpers Magazine, 1881</image:caption>
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