Interior. Plaster detail in the Tapestry Room.
SC 565486
Description Interior. Plaster detail in the Tapestry Room.
Collection Records of the Scottish National Buildings Record, Edinburgh, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 565486
Category On-line Digital Images
Copy of ED 1936
Scope and Content Detail of the plasterwork ceiling in the Tapestry Room, Prestonfield House, Duddingston, Edinburgh Prestonfield House, now a hotel, stands on the south side of Duddingston Loch. It was designed in the 1680s by Sir William Bruce for Sir James Dick, Lord Provost of Edinburgh, to replace an earlier house burnt down by a student demonstration in 1681. The elaborate ceiling in the Tapestry Room, the original drawing room of the house, is decorated with pendant cupids and heraldic beasts, and with primitive winged figures, surrounded by the fruits and flowers of the countryside. The ceiling in the Tapestry Room has similar plasterwork to that found in Holyrood Palace, reconstructed for King Charles II in the 1670s by Sir William Bruce, who employed the same craftsmen for Prestonfield House that he had used to build the palace. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
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