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Interior. View of the fireplace in the Tapestry Room. Digital image of B 38800.
SC 774359
Description Interior. View of the fireplace in the Tapestry Room. Digital image of B 38800.
Date c. 1950 to 1960
Collection Papers of George Hay, architect, Edinburgh, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 774359
Category On-line Digital Images
Copy of B 38800
Scope and Content Detail of the Tapestry Room fireplace, Prestonfield House, No 71 Priestfield Road, Edinburgh This shows the carved wooden fire surround in the Tapestry Room. The sides feature angels' heads on foliate supports surmounted by pots of flowers. These flank the central panel with its mer-babies grasping a wreathed cartouche. The inner part of the fireplace is made from variegated marble with a cast metal margin. Above the fireplace is a painting of an Italianate landscape in a carved wooden frame featuring cupids and flowers. The Tapestry Room is named after a series of early 18th century Mortlake tapestries illustrating tales from Ovid which hang here. The room was originally a drawing room, and would be used for entertaining guests after dinner. This important room is richly furnished in order to impress visitors with their host's wealth and style. Prestonfield House was rebuilt for Sir James Dick in 1687 by the architect Sir William Bruce (c.1630-1710) after being burnt down during a student riot in 1681. A single-storeyed extension was added in c.1830, and in 1890 architects MacGibbon & Ross added a bathroom extension. Within the grounds is an unusual circular stable block built in 1816 to designs by James Gillespie Graham (1777-1855). The house has been run as a hotel since 1959. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
Accession Number 1991/27
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