2-798-521 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Queen Elizabeth's State Bed, 1844. Four-poster bed at Burghley House, near Stamford, Lincolnshire. The house was built in the 16th century for William Cecil, Lord Burghley, Lord High Treasurer to Queen Elizabeth I. 'This state bed has hangings of green velvet on a ground of gold tissue...The room is hung with tapestry, the subjects being Actseon and Diana, Bacchus and Ariadne, and Acis and Galatea. Queen Elizabeth is stated to have occupied the above state bed on her visit to her Lord High Treasurer'. From "Illustrated London News", 1844, Vol V.