Thomas Smith and his family by Robert West, 1733

A family gathers for tea in a paneled parlor. The fireplace has a marble surround. A black servant, possibly a slave, who appears to be a boy, waits by the hot water kettle. This image suggests the sort of entertainment one might have experienced in the Stenton Parlour. Charles Saumarez Smith, Eighteenth-Century Decoration: Design and the Domestic Interior in England. New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1993, plate 90, page 107.