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Interior View of library Digital image of C/60342/cn

SC 774264

Description Interior View of library Digital image of C/60342/cn

Date 22/8/1995

Catalogue Number SC 774264

Category On-line Digital Images

Copy of C 60342 CN

Scope and Content Library, Keithick House, Perth & Kinross This shows the dining room which has blue-painted walls and a marble chimneypiece with a central panel of an urn with rosettes at each side. Details of the cornice have been gilded and a picture rail runs the length of the room. Wooden bookcases which have been set into the walls have cupboards below dado level and shelves with wood and mesh doors above. The library was one of the main entertaining rooms which were located on the ground floor. Other entertaining rooms included the drawing room and dining room. In 1911 this room was decorated in a style which harked back to Victorian times and had a wooden chimneypiece with a tiled grate. Paintings were hung from the picture rail above the bookcases and attached to the chimneypiece was a beaded and woolwork fire screen. Keithick House was designed by David Whyte and built for W E Collinswood between 1818 and 1823. David Bryce (1803-76) changed the porch and offices in 1839, and Maclaren, Soutar & Salmond made further alterations in 1926. Morant painted an Adam Revival decorative scheme in the drawing room. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

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