Interior, 1st. floor, ante-room, view of door with carved wooden panel above, leading to 'Bonnie Prince Charlie's' bedroom.

Description Interior, 1st. floor, ante-room, view of door with carved wooden panel above, leading to 'Bonnie Prince Charlie's' bedroom.

Date 16/11/1998

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

Catalogue Number D 41676 CN

Category Photographs and Off-line Digital Images

Copies SC 764697

Scope and Content Doorcase in West Wall of Ante-Room, Drumlanrig Castle, Dumfries & Galloway The ante-room has walls lined with 17th-century oak panelling adorned with elegant 18th-century French gilded candle scones. The panel above this pedimented doorcase in the west wall contains a limewood carving of foliage and cornucopia (a symbol of plenty shaped like a goat's horn) intertwined with the monogram of the 1st Duke of Queensberry. The carving is thought to be by the master English wood-carver, Grinling Gibbons, and was executed between 1684 and the death of the duke in 1695. The shutters to the left of the door are original, and the elaborate Boulle cartel clock on the 17th-century ebonised cabinet to the right was made by Charles Cressent c.1735. The ante-room was originally the state drawing room, one of three 17th-century interconnecting state apartments on the first floor theoretically reserved for the king or his representative. It was entered from the state dining room (now the drawing room) on the east, and led, through this door in the west wall, to the state bedchamber in the south-west tower. The most famous occupant of the bedchamber was Prince Charles Edward Stuart, who stayed at Drumlanrig on his retreat northwards in December 1745 with a force of 2,000 Highlanders. This door is now commonly known as 'the door to Bonnie Prince Charlie's bedroom'. 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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