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North Hertfordshire Decorative and Fine Arts Society (Letchworth)

Cost: £30.00 per annum. Contact Membership Secretary on 01462 622466 if you wish to join.

Programme for 2008/9 includes lectures on a variety of fine art related subjects, three outings to places of interest and two study days which look at a subject in more depth:

• 6 March - The Partnership of Gertrude Jekyll and Sir Edward Lutyens
• 3 April - Netherlandish Influences on Italian Art
• 1 May - Charles II, his Mistresses and their Families
• 5 June - Murderers, Magicians, Madmen and Monarchs; Shakespeare
• 3 July - The Treasures of Tutankhamen
• 4 September - Shadowplay - the Dramatic Art of Caravaggio
• 2 October - Chelsea, Worcester, Bow and Derby
• 6 November - Walnut Furniture from 1660 to 1740: “The Age of Walnut”
• 4 December - The Rise and Fall of the English Music Hall
• 5 February 2009 - Romanticism and the Individual
• 5 March - Outing St Paul’s Cathedral for an Evening of History and Music.
• 16 June - Outing Loseley Park and Watts Gallery.
• 16 October - Outing Osterley Park and Chiswick House.
• 13 March - Study Day The Grand Tour and its effects on English Gardens
• 13 November - Study Day Kingdom in the Sun/Classical and Medieval Sicily