Title: Visible Remains of Sir Nicholas Bacon
Subtitle: Ten Artefacts that Preserve his Name and Legacy
Description: Elizabeth I's first and longest serving keeper of the Great Seal, statesman, lawyer, education reformer, innovator, patriarch and the father of Sir Francis Bacon, Nicholas Bacon (1509-1579) is one of greatest political figures in English history. "Visible Remains" is a collection of ten lavishly illustrated articles that explore different aspects of Bacon's life through artefacts that he owned and/or commissioned. These include his lost golden dragon whistle; the three silver-gilt "Bacon Cups" two of which are owned by the British and Ashmolen Museums; his 1574 bookplate - the earliest example of an English ex libris; his ancestral tree from 1578 which is published here in colour for the first time. There is also an inventory of his contemporary portraits; a reproduction and transcription of his grant of arms (1568); as well as a study of a delftware floor tile from Old Gorhambury House, etc. An appendix provides a detailed biographical overview of Bacon's life. As much a visual as a written investigation, the work includes many images of precious objects which are little known and rarely seen. Permission was given by some of the UK's most important  cultural archives, such as English Heritage Archive, the British Library, the National Trust, the National Portrait Gallery, the Universities of Cambridge and Oxford, the Wellcome Collection, Gray's Inn, etc, as noted in the acknowledgements. 60 pages in landscape format.
Subjects: Elizabethan art, Tudor history
Places: London, St Albans, Gorhambury, Hertfordshire, Norfolk (England)
People: Sir Nicholas Bacon, Sir Francis Bacon, Anne Bacon, Elizabeth I Queen of England (1533-1603)
Time periods: 1509-1579