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Traquair House, 1st. floor, High Drawing-room, detail of exposed painted beams. Digital image of D 59937 CN.
SC 759994
Description Traquair House, 1st. floor, High Drawing-room, detail of exposed painted beams. Digital image of D 59937 CN.
Date 11/10/1999
Collection Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu
Catalogue Number SC 759994
Category On-line Digital Images
Copy of D 59937 CN
Scope and Content Painted beams in the high drawing room, Traquair House, Scottish Borders This shows part of a painted ceiling uncovered in 1954, which dates from the late 16th/early 17th century. The timbers are decorated with brown, ochre, green, white and orange tempura bands of scrollwork, lines of biblical text, bows, interlace, foliage and grotesques. The biblical texts on this ceiling are taken from the Psalms of the Geneva version of the Bible, first published in 1560. The texts are painted with vernacular spellings (like everyday speech) which may suggest the painter was working from memory, rather than from the Bible itself. Traquair is the oldest continually inhabited house in Scotland, with its origins in the 10th century. It was the site of a royal hunting lodge in the 1200s, but the house as seen today is based around a c.1512 tower-house with many later additions. The flanking service wings were built in 1695 to designs by architect James Smith (c.1645-1731), who also designed the wrought-iron screens round the courtyard in 1698. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
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