Lord Byron’s Screen” was the subject of the power point presentation delivered to
members of the Edwinstowe Historical Society, recently. In the eighteenth century a
fashionable way of displaying prints was to stick them onto the wall of a “print room” or
mount them on a screen of wood and canvas or paper. Coats of lacquer were then applied.
A method known as “decoupage”. Byron’s interest in the theatre and prize fighting was
reflected in his screen, which is now on view at the National Portrait Gallery.
There are no meetings in December and January. At the meeting on 18th February the
Society welcomes the return of David Templeman whose illustrated talk relates to Mary
Queen of Scots – Part 2.