The Queen's Head in Mortlake
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Barnes and Mortlake – The Queen's Head
1566 - The mathematician, astrologer and alchemist John Dee moves to a house in Mortlake on the site of the building now known as the Queen’s Head
1571 - John Dee brings back from Lorraine a cartload of special instruments for alchemy, to be installed in his laboratory at Mortlake
1583 - John Dee sets off for six years of travel in Europe, during which his laboratory and library in Mortlake is plundered by former associates and rivals
1619 - Dee’s house and estate are purchased by Francis Crane to establish the Mortlake Tapestry Works, with eighteen looms operated by Flemish weavers
1632 - Charles I acquires Raphael’s cartoons for The Acts of the Apostles (now in the Victoria and Albert Museum), to be copied as tapestries in the workshops at Mortlake
1703 - The Mortlake Tapestry workshops are closed
18th century - The Queen’s Head pub is built in the orchard of John Dee’s house
1952 - The Queen’s Head pub closes
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Sources – for this page DNB (John Dee), Weinreb 528, derkeler.com, BSHM
Contributors to this page BG
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