| Like Logan, Bacon cultivated an amateur interest in scientific
experiment. A transit quadrant for tracking the sun and stars is on the
tripod base near the window. A reflecting telescope sits on the bracket
table. In the back room are a library bookcase, an air pump and a compass
microscope, as well as a pair of globes. The Bacons could again almost
be the Logans: a mother and father and their two sons and two daughters
amuse themselves near an arched opening flanked by pilasters, not unlike
the entry hall arch at Stenton. Charles Saumarez Smith, Eighteenth-Century
Decoration: Design and the Domestic Interior in England. New York:
Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1993, plate 152, page 166. |
