Kingston Road, 'The Oriels', Drawing room at H.G. Quartermain’s home
Partial / Incomplete Date | 1899 |
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Area | Merton Park |
Copyright 1 | John Innes Society |
Stakeholder Image | JIS |
Picture Reference | JIS_Q_54b |
Original Format | |
Photographer / Origin of Photo | via Quartermain family |
Notes / History | Showing Grinling Gibbons overmantel, with frieze from Thomas Carlyle's house, Chelsea; Jacobean chair and stool made of old oak from Merton Church; Cromwellian clock; and (far left) screen with brocade from Marie Antionette's boudoir. House was next to level crossing and destroyed in World War II. |