Interior. View of the Leather Room, south east corner.
SC 565494
Description Interior. View of the Leather Room, south east corner.
Catalogue Number SC 565494
Category On-line Digital Images
Copy of B 38803
Scope and Content Detail of the Leather 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 Leather Room, the original bedchamber of the house, has walls lined with 17th-century wooden panelling containing red Cordovan leather panels embossed in high relief with flowers, shells, insects and snakes. The leather panels, originally made in 1676 at Cordova in Spain as wall hangings for Sir James Dick's townhouse in the Lawnmarket in Edinburgh, were moved to the Prestonfield estate when the house was rebuilt in 1687. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
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