Reconstruction painting depicting a cook boiling meats in a copper, a large cooking cauldron placed over a fire, in the kitchens at Kenilworth Castle. It is thought that the copper was an addition to the kitchens in the later fifteenth century.

Date:
Jun 2006
Location:
Kenilworth Castle, Kitchens, Kenilworth, Warwick, Warwickshire
Reference:
IC053/024
Type:
Reconstruction Artwork
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Description

A detail from this illustration was reproduced on page 15 of the 2006 English Heritage guidebook for Kenilworth Castle; the image showing a closer view of the figure and the copper. A much smaller version of the same cropped image was subsequently also used on page 11 of the 2010 English Heritage guidebook for the castle. This image may also have been used on information panels at the site.

Content

This is part of the Volume: IC053 Kenilworth Castle And Elizabethan Garden, Warwickshire; within the Series: EHC01/146 English Heritage Reconstruction And Artwork Collection; within the Collection: EHC01 English Heritage(Eh):Archive

Rights

© Historic England Archive

People & Organisations

Illustrator: Conlin, Stephen

Commissioner Of Artwork: Robinson, David

Keywords

Medieval Castle, Food And Drink, People At Work