The Life of Thomas Hardy (Brennecke)/Images
Hardy attending a rehearsal of The Queen of Cornwall at the Corn Exchange, Dorchester, in the summer of 1923.
Iseult, Tristram and King Mark—a scene from The Queen of Cornwall, as produced by the Hardy Players, November, 1923.
Coat-of-arms of the Hardy family. From Payen-Payne's Armorial of Jersey, 1862. Sable on a chevron between three escallops, or as many griffins' heads of the field. Quartering: Azure, a chevron, or, between three cinquefoils, argent, for De Beauvoir: Gules, three escallops, or a crescent for difference, for Dumaresq: and Gules, three escallops, or a fleur-de-lis, for difference, for Dumaresq. Impaling: Argent, three leaves, vert, for Irving. Crest: A dexter arm, embowed, in armour, gauntlet, ppr., garnished, or holding a griffin's head, as in the arms.
"Egdon Heath"—Puddletown Heath, near Bockhampton, Dorsetshire. From an aquatint by John Everett.
The London and South Western Railway Station, Dorchester. From an aquatint by John Everett.
Hardy’s Birthplace, Upper Bockhampton. From an aquatint by John Everett.
Max Gate, Hardy’s home on the Wareham Road, near Dorchester. From an aquatint by John Everett.
Weymouth, waterside and bridge. From an aquatint by John Everett.
Thomas Hardy in 1890. From a photograph published in The Pall Mall Budget.
A page from the manuscript of A Group of Noble Dames. The original manuscript of A Group of Noble Dames was presented to the Library of Congress, Washington, D. C., by Mr. Hardy at the suggestion of Mr. Sydney Carlyle Cockerell, M.A., Curator of the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, England. In a letter to Mr. Cockerell, dated October 11, 1911, Hardy referred to the gift in the following terms:
"I am rather appalled at the temerity of presenting these old MSS and should much like it to appear on
each record or label in some way either that they were
presented through you, at your wish or suggestion, or
presented to you to distribute as you should choose. It
would, I feel, not be quite becoming for a writer to
send his MSS to a Museum on his own judgment."
East High Street, Dorchester, showing St. Peter’s Church, the bronze statue of William Barnes, the Corn Exchange and the King's Arms Hotel. From an aquatint by John Everett.
Thomas Hardy, O. M. (1913). From a photograph by Bernard Griffin, Dorchester.
A page from the manuscript of The Dynasts. Reproduced through the courtesy of the British Museum.
Hardy receiving the degree of D. Litt. at Oxford. To his right is Mrs. Hardy; to his left, Lady Raleigh, wife of Sir Walter Raleigh, late Professor of English Literature at the University.
The Prince of Wales visits Mr. and Mrs. Hardy at Max Gate.