2-888-518 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The White Drawing-Room, Windsor Castle, 1850. 'The White Drawingroom is a noble room, with a spacious bay window reaching from the floor to the ceiling, and it is frequently used as a breakfast-room by her Majesty...the walls...are painted white, the whole of the ornamental details on the walls and ceiling being richly gilded. The two doors at the south side of the room...are...of ebony, with enrichments of ormolu. Large plates of looking-glass are in the doors, and also over the fire-place...The draperies to the window are of crimson satin damask...In the bay of the window, on a tall pedestal of black marble of classic design, is an elegant vase of malachite, mounted in ormolu; and immediately in front of the pedestal is a table of most beautiful workmanship...The chandelier is a massive and somewhat heavy-looking one, for forty lights'. From "Illustrated London News", 1850.