“the ceiling is taken from the Queen’s dressing-room at Windsor”
Horace Walpole’s Description 1784

The Holbein Chamber

The Holbein Chamber is the first room to escape from the grey castle like quality of the earlier rooms. Its purple coloured walls originally provided a back-drop to a set of Holbein drawings.

The ceiling is an early example of the use of papier mâché and is based on the Queen’s dressing room at Windsor Castle.