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Interior view of the drawing room on the first floor showing a detail of the corbel decorated with a minstrel.
C 48262
Description Interior view of the drawing room on the first floor showing a detail of the corbel decorated with a minstrel.
Catalogue Number C 48262
Category Photographs and Off-line Digital Images
Copies SC 684077
Scope and Content Detail of corbel on first-floor drawing room ceiling, Egremont, No 38 Dick Place, Edinburgh Egremont, or Park House as it is sometimes called, is a large Romanesque villa with fine decorative details. It was designed by the architect Frederick Thomas Pilkington (1832-98) as his own home and built 1864-70. This house was sub-divided in 1929. This photograph shows the ornate plasterwork ceiling in the drawing room. Cast plaster elements have been assembled to form friezes, cornices and panels. The corbel which supports a decorated beam holds the figure of a minstrel with a lute. Plain plasterwork decorations were usually completed on site, whereas more complicated designs would be cast in sections in a workshop. These would be made in moulds of hide glue or plaster, and the decorative details or 'enrichments' assembled later. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
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