Star loan object at The Salisbury Museum
On loan from: The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge
A key theme in The Salisbury Museum’s exhibition is Hardy’s views on religion. The novel Jude the Obscure is about a stonemason who works on Hardy’s ‘Melchester’ Cathedral (Salisbury). It was Hardy’s last completed novel.
The museum is located under the shadow of the cathedral’s famous spire, and the manuscript will sit alongside stonemasonry tools used by a Salisbury stonemason.
Our star loans were made possible by support from the Weston Loan Programme with Art Fund.