Drawing room

Description

Panelling and fireplace from drawing room of Hamilton Palace: Scottish, Hamilton and elsewhere, by William Morgan and others, late 1690s

Museum reference

A.1992.107

Collection

Decorative and Applied Art

Object name

Drawing room

Production information

Morgan, William, 1673 - 1700 (fl.), Designer
Scotland, Northern Europe

Date

Late 1690s

Materials

Oak, Marble, Brass, Iron

Associations

Duke of Hamilton
Hearst Collection
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Hamilton Palace, Hamilton, Lanarkshire, Scotland, Northern Europe

Exhibitions

• Art of Living (08 Jul 2016)
  National Museum of Scotland

References

Scottish Country Life, June 1920, p.271

French & Co. archive is now in the Getty Centre for the History of Art and the Humanities, 401 Wilshire Boulevard, Santa Monica

David Black’s piece in The Sunday Times Scotland, 28 October 1990

William Rieder of the Metropolitan Museum of Art (letter dated 11 March 1992)

Avray Tipping’s first article on Hamilton Palace in Country Life, 7 June 1919, p. 670

Letter from French & Co. to Edwin Hipkiss of the Museum of Fine Art, Boston, date 16 November 1927

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