Word: wragg
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...exhibit includes small models of sets, assembled under the direction of Chatsworth's keeper, Thomas S. Wragg, but the drawings more nearly illustrate why a contemporary observed that Jones, "in designing with his pen, was not to be equalled by whatsoever great masters in his time for boldness, softness, sweetness and sureness of touch." The son of a Smithfield clothworker, Inigo Jones was trained as a painter, studied in Italy, and was largely responsible for putting England back into the mainstream of Renaissance cul ture, from which it had been isolated by the Reformation. Appointed the Crown...