Interior, 1st. floor, ante-room, view from South East. Digital image of D 41674/cn

Description Interior, 1st. floor, ante-room, view from South East. Digital image of D 41674/cn

Date 16/11/1998

Collection Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu

Catalogue Number SC 764696

Category On-line Digital Images

Copy of D 41674 CN

Scope and Content Ante-Room, Drumlanrig Castle, Dumfries & Galloway, from the south-east This splendid ante-room lies to the west of the drawing room on the first floor of the south front. The Jacobean-style plasterwork ceiling dates from the 19th century, but the oak panelling is original, dating from the 17th century. The panelling on the north wall frames a large tapestry woven in Brussels in the late 17th-century. The panel above the fireplace, designed to hold a painting, contains a portrait of Archibald, 3rd Duke of Argyll, by the distinguished 18th-century Scottish artist, Allan Ramsay. Corinthian pilasters adorned with 18th-century French gilded candle scones frame the fireplace, set off-centre in the wall to allow for a door (out-of picture) through to the bedchamber in the south-west tower. The room is lit by a magnificent Waterford crystal chandelier dating from c.1790, and furnished with chairs and a day bed (with contemporary velvet coverings) dating from the reign of Queen Anne. The ante-room was originally the state drawing room, one of three 17th-century interconnecting state apartments on the first floor. It was entered from the state dining room (now the drawing room) to the east, and led to the state bedchamber in the south-west tower. As one of the great public rooms of the castle, it was designed as a formal reception room and the focal point of fashionable society life at the castle. Drumlanrig Castle, one of the great Renaissance courtyard houses of Scottish domestic architecture, was built between 1679 and 1690 for William Douglas, 1st Duke of Queensberry, on the site of a late 14th-century Douglas stronghold. The castle passed to the Dukes of Buccleuch in 1810, and is now the home of the 9th Duke (11th Duke of Queensberry). It houses many great family treasures and important works of art, including magnificent carvings and a fine collection of paintings. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

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