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Interior, 1st. floor, drawing-room, view from south west Digital image of D 47106/cn

SC 764729

Description Interior, 1st. floor, drawing-room, view from south west Digital image of D 47106/cn

Date 26/4/1999

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

Catalogue Number SC 764729

Category On-line Digital Images

Copy of D 47106 CN

Scope and Content Drawing Room, Drumlanrig Castle, Dumfries & Galloway, from the south-west This splendid drawing room occupies the central portion of the first floor of the south front. The fine Jacobean-style plasterwork ceiling dates from the 19th century, and is a type of ceiling that reappears in other principal rooms remodelled at the same time. The 17th-century oak panelling is original, and is adorned with elegant French gilded candle scones made c.1750, and hung with 17th- and 18th-century full-length portraits. The veined marble fireplace in the centre of the north wall is carved with the Queensberry coat-of-arms, and the overmantel is richly carved with fruit, foliage and dead birds, probably the work of the master English wood-carver, Grinling Gibbons. More rich carving, also thought to be by Gibbons, appears within the pediment over the east door (right) and on the panel above. The room is lit by a pair of elaborate ormolu (gilded bronze) and glass chandeliers which date from the first half of the 19th century, and the French Savonnerie carpet is of the same date. The small French gilt-framed chairs (foreground) are covered in Beauvais tapestry, and are signed by the maker and the date, '1756'. The drawing room was originally the 17th-century state dining room, the first room of a great sweep of interconnecting state apartments on the first floor. It was entered from the main staircase (the state stair) through the door at the east end, and led to the state drawing room, and then the state bedchamber in the south-west tower. This series of highly decorated rooms were the public rooms of the castle, and the focus of fashionable society life. 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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