Artist Scottish
Title
  • Bedroom from Duchess Suite of Hamilton Palace
Date c. 1725
Medium Wood, plaster, paint
Dimensions Height x square footage: 192 x 260 in.
487.7 x 660.4 cm
Credit Line Gift of the William Randolph Hearst Foundation and the Hearst Foundation, Inc.
Accession Number 58.240
Department European Sculpture and Dec Arts
Not On View
Hamilton Palace, South Lanarkshire, Scotland (until 1919);
Estate sale, Christie, Manson & Woods, 13 November 1919, lot [#];
Charles Roberson (dealer), London;
French and Company (dealer), New York (until December 30, 1924);
William Randolph Hearst, New York (until 1951);
William Randolph Hearst Foundation (until 1958);
H. A. Tipping, "Hamilton Palace, Lanarkshire, A seat of the Duke of Hamilton and Brandon, [Part] II," Country Life (June 14, 1919), pp. 719-720; p. 716, fig. 1 (ill); p. 719, fig. 5 (ill)

Christie, Manson & Woods, "Hamilton Palace: remaining contents of the palace including woodwork and fittings," p. #

I. Gow, Scottish Houses and Gardens: From the Archives of "Country Life" [Illustrated] (1997), pp. 144-145 (ill)

B. Gallagher, "William Randolph Hearst and the Detroit Institute of Arts," Bulletin of the DIA 78 (2004), pp. 57-58, p. 63; p. 64; p. 58, fig. 5 (ill)

J. Harris, Moving Rooms: the Trade in Architectural Salvages (New Haven & London, 2007), pp. 191-193; p. 192 (ill)