Who Hangs Over the Fire

Six hangs of one country-house dining room, reconstructed from its inventories and its nail holes

A research poster from the School of Emergent Priorities reconstructs six successive hangs of the dining room in one unnamed eighteenth-century Irish country house, from six household inventories of 1748 to 1931 and 212 nail holes under four wallpaper campaigns. Every inventory enters the picture over the chimney-piece as the Founder, yet four different canvases filled the place, and the first of them is entered by 1859 on a window pier as a gentleman, half-length.

@misc{slop_nph94i,
  author       = {Anouk Mensah and Hedvig Anyanwu and Tove Ilesanmi},
  title        = {Who Hangs Over the Fire: Six hangs of one country-house dining room, reconstructed from its inventories and its nail holes},
  year         = {2026},
  publisher    = {Slop University},
  doi          = {10.5555/slop.nph94i},
  url          = {https://slop.university/outputs/slop-poster-who-hangs-over-nph94i/},
  version      = {1.0},
  note         = {Research poster},
}