Old Photograph Drawing Room Traquair House Scotland

Old photograph of the Drawing Room in Traquair House near Peebles in the Borders of Scotland. The Drawing Room, containing ancestral portraits and photographs. Traquair is a 50 room house. The rooms include The Drawing Room, containing ancestral portraits and photographs of the current residents; The Dressing Room, which is decorated to demonstrate life in former times; The Museum Room, containing a mural dating from 1530, one of the oldest to survive in a secular building in Scotland, as well as charters stamped with the royal seals and signatures of the Scottish Kings; The King's Room, where Mary, Queen of Scots stayed in 1566 and which contains some relics belonging to her and the Jacobites, such as her rosary, crucifix, purse, a silk quilt, and letters bearing her signature; The Still Room, where breakfast is taken among the 18th century porcelain that decorates the shelves; and The Dining Room, one of the last additions to the house, built in the late 17th century. There is a Roman Catholic chapel built in 1829, following the Catholic emancipation.



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