Talk:Holland House
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[edit] Gilt Chamber
There isn't much description of the architecture or contents of the House, so there didn't seem to be a place to put the following. I also don't know if the room still exists; I only have an old drawing of the room and this description.
- The Gilt Chamber at Holland House: In that room the figures over the fireplace were painted in flesh color wherever bare; the rest was in shaded gold. The lower marbles of the fireplace were black, and the upper ones were Sienna; the capitals and bases of the columns and pilasters were gilt, and the groundwork from which all the glittering decoration rose was white.
- "Elizabethan and later English furniture" (1877-12). Harper's New Monthly Magazine 56 (331): 23-24.
--SEWilco (talk) 03:34, 8 May 2008 (UTC)
Thank you for this interesting snippet. I grew up nearby, and can report that sadly the Gilt Chamber certainly no longer exists. That would definitely enrich the article as a historical note, though. Is it possible that you could scan the illustration? -- Earle Martin [t/c] 22:35, 8 May 2008 (UTC)
