Rural Beginnings Thomas Hardy aged 16 1840 1928

Rural Beginnings Thomas Hardy, aged 16 (1840 -1928) Remnants from Hardy family clothing (Dorset County Museum)

Dress Jemima Hardy’s dress (Dorset County Museum) Muslin day dress (The Salisbury Museum) Cotton day dress (Poole Museum)

Dress She was fashionably dressed in a green spencer, with 'Mameluke' sleeves, and wore a velvet Spanish hat and feather. (The Trumpet-Major) Silk Dress, 1820 s (The Salisbury Museum)

Photography Rural workers, by John Pouncy Under the Greenwood Tree by John Pouncy Thomas Hardy’s father Thomas (1811 -92)

Stonemasons and Salisbury Cathedral Phillotson entered the adjacent cathedral just now in a direly dismantled state by reason of the repairs…Jude offered him a piece of sackcloth for a cushion, and told him it was dangerous to sit on the bare block. (Jude the Obscure)

The sea Sergeant Troy near Durdle Door Far From the Madding Crowd ‘Elfride atttempts to help Knight’ A Pair of Blue Eyes ‘Man aboard the Heather’ by Thomas Hardy, 1875

Clothing in the Landscape

Stonehenge Inside the Circle, by Henry Moore (Wiltshire Museum) Katherine Hardy’s dress (Dorset County Museum)

Art and Illustration Trumpet-Major Notebook and illustration by Thomas Hardy (Dorset County Museum) Fashion illustration (Wilsthire Museum)

Art and Illustration Harvest Man By Bernard Gribble (Poole Museum) Emma Lavinia Hardy (Dorset County Museum)

Fashion and Film