2-697-485 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Queen Elizabeth's Room in Penshurst Place, Kent, 1894. The Queen Elizabeth Room, named after Elizabeth I who often held audience there during her many visits after 1599. Penshurst Place was the birthplace of the great Elizabethan poet, courtier and soldier, Sir Philip Sidney. The original medieval house is one of the most complete surviving examples of 14th-century domestic architecture in England. From Beautiful Britain; views of our stately homes. [The Werner Company of Chicago, 1894]