BODELWYDDAN CASTLE

Ladies Drawing Room | Portraits on display

The drawing room in the nineteenth-century was a decidedly female room - a place to receive callers, take tea, make music or, without the men of course, to retire to after dinner. This room has a late Regency character, the decoration taking its cue from the group portrait dated c.1830 of the composer and founder of the music publishing firm, Vincent Novello, seated at the piano surrounded by his large family. The architraves to the doors - debased versions of Sir John Soane's style - provided a pattern for the cornice and fireplace while the yellow fabric used on the walls was rewoven from a sample dating from the 1840s. The Empire style carpet was taken from a design of 1798. The furniture includes balloon back chairs, originally from the Castle, and a 'Biedermeier' sofa probably made in Berlin around 1830.

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