Costumes of Downton Abbey
Are you a fan of Downton Abbey? My wife loves this TV show. Dolores and I traveled to Wilmington, Delaware today to see the special Costumes of Downton Abby exhibit at Winterthur. We always enjoy our visits to Winterthur to enjoy the beautiful gardens and the tours of the mansion and museum. We are annual members.
The Costumes of Downton Abby exhibit opened on the first of this month and will run through January 4, 2015. Go to the above links for more information and plan your visit. We are lucky to be able to go to Winterthur on day trips. Yes, I took lots of photographs but have not yet downloaded them to my computer. When I have time, I will share some of the photographs in future blogs, on Flickr, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and Pinterest.
Costumes of Downton Abbey is an original exhibition of exquisite designs from the award-winning television series. Forty historically inspired costumes from the television show will be displayed and supplemented by photographs and vignettes inspired by the fictional program and by real life at Winterthur.
Visitors will have a chance to step into and experience the world of Downton Abbey® and the contrasting world of Winterthur founder Henry Francis du Pont and his contemporaries in the first half of the 20th century.
A co-production of Carnival Films and Masterpiece, Downton Abbey depicts life in an aristocratic household of the fictional Earl and Countess of Grantham and is one of the most popular and critically acclaimed period dramas ever produced. It has won a Golden Globe Award for Best Miniseries and seven Emmys including a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Miniseries. It was the most watched television series in both the UK and the U.S. and became the most successful British costume drama series since the 1981 television serial Brideshead Revisited. By the third series, it had become one of the most widely watched television shows in the world. The Guinness World Records recognized Downton Abbey as the most critically acclaimed English-language television series of 2011.\
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Photograph by Dolores Kelley
Roy and Dolores Kelley Photographs
Nice photos.
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