Members of the Painting Class
In collaboration with ‘Dramatizing Penshurst’, Victoria Wainwright’s class visited Penshurst Place with their sketchbooks and took inspiration from the plants mentioned in the script of Lady Mary Wroth’s play Love’s Victory and those visible in the gardens and landscape on site.
Penshurst Place has a range of different garden spaces, from enclosed formal gardens to more open orchards, walks and landscapes.
Sketching in the grounds, with views of the hybrid architecture of Penshurst Place, helped artists to respond to the organic and historical resonances of Love’s Victory, whose script is full of natural landscapes and details of flowers. In the opening scene, for example, the romantic hero, Philisses, sings to the meadows:
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Permissions: Huntington images and transcript: HM600 “Love’s Victory”. |
Through the seasons, the range of different garden spaces at Penshurst offer on-site models for illustrating these scenes.
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- ‘Illustrating the play’
Paul Salzman has published an excellent online edition of the Huntington manuscript of Love’s Victory via the Early Modern Women’s Research Network, which gives an erudite introduction and allows readers to view professionally photographed images of the Huntington manuscript, taken by the Huntington Library, alongside transcriptions of the text for the first time.
If you are interested in the two different manuscript versions of Lady Mary Wroth’s Love’s Victory, see Professor Alison Findlay’s post on The manuscripts of Love’s Victory
About Victoria Wainwright
Victoria Wainwright is a professional Artist and Illustrator specialising in pen and ink and printmaking but with a varied background in illustration techniques and briefs. She regularly undertakes commission work where illustration is a feature, and has illustrated a number of published books. Victoria’s main interest is in drawing people, capturing their movement and character.