Burghley House 2

Unlike many of the houses we have seen, Burleigh's kitchen seemed to be one great
hall, rather than a collection of lesser rooms; anyhow, those are turtle heads on the
wall

Burleigh has more paintings than most houses; some portraits of
interest--more for who they are of than who they are by--and a
number by the great masters, so the frame says, but when you look
at the catalog, it becomes "in the manner of" or "follower of" or
"studio of"; the colossal painting of an ox above is the real thing,
by Rubens' disciple Snyders; it is so large it had to be restored in
place

"You rang, sir?" final episode

We were more impressed with the furniture and furnishings, though little of it was
Elizabethan

William Cecil, Lord Burleigh

His boss, the Queen

One of many such rooms

Bed for Queen Victoria's visit; despite the steps, the bed still had to be shortened
for her

Silver fireplace ware

Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip recently planted trees at
Burghley; on the left are the shovels they used; on the right is
the child's shovel that the very petite Queen Victoria used in
the 1850s

Exquisite room after exquisite room; this one of the George
rooms

An incredible chest

The Italian Baroque muralist Antonio Verrio spent ten yearsat Burleigh,
doing walls, ceilings, staircases...here, just a bit of his "Heaven" room; well,
it was a Classical heaven

And here, a bit of his Hell Staircase

And, lastly, a great hall easily the size of a tennis court...