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Interior, 1st. floor, room 39, view of fireplace. Digital image of D 41647 cn
SC 767318
Description Interior, 1st. floor, room 39, view of fireplace. Digital image of D 41647 cn
Date 16/11/1998
Collection Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu
Catalogue Number SC 767318
Category On-line Digital Images
Copy of D 41647 CN
Scope and Content Chimneypiece in Room 39, Drumlanrig Castle, Dumfries & Galloway This early 18th-century chimneypiece, brought to Drumlanrig c.1930 from Dalkeith House, Lothian, forms the focal point of Room 39, the central bedroom on the first floor of the north wing of the house. The grey and pink veined marble fireplace is surmounted by a mirror whose white marble frame is carved in high relief with fruit, leaves, birds and cherubs. The wooden overmantel holds a family portrait, and the frame is richly carved with birds and fruit, and surmounted by two cherubs' heads leaning against a ducal coronet. When Drumlanrig was built, the whole of the first floor of the north wing of the house was filled with a long gallery which was the setting for a magnificent display of family portraits. Although long galleries had been common in England since the 16th century, they were a late 17th-century innovation in Scotland and appeared only in the grandest houses such as Holyrood Palace in Edinburgh. The long gallery was subdivided into bedrooms in 1813. 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 works of art, including fine carvings and an important collection of paintings. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
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