The Long Gallery, viewed from the north alcove towards the fireplace, at Hardwick Hall, Derbyshire

The Long Gallery, viewed from the north alcove towards the fireplace, at Hardwick Hall, Derbyshire. The table in the foreground is covered with a carpet in the Elizabethan manner, one of the two late sixteenth or early seventeenth-century German or Flemish brass chandeliers is visible. The chimneypiece, one of two in the Gallery, has alabaster statues of Justice and Mercy.