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Image Number: 
Bookreader VPH_6
Reference Number: 
VPH.6
Parent Work Title: 
Intérieurs Anglais, an album of 50 cyanotypes of British house interiors by Bedford Lemere & Co. 1880’s-1890’s
Creator: 
Lemere, Bedford Henry (Harry), 1865-1944
Creator Role: 
Photographer
Creator: 
Boucher, Adolphe Augustus, 1868 - 1937
Creator Role: 
Photographer
Date Created: 
19th century [late]
Description: 
Intérieurs Anglais by Bedford Lemere & Co. A catalogue of 50 cyanotypes of British house interiors 1880’s-1890’s, produced for the French market. Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s painting The Loving Cup (1867) is featured in the first two prints of Dawpool House, Thurstaston. The set is incomplete, wanting 36 prints. Catalogues of this type were advertisements for the excellence of Bedford Lemere's architectural photography.
Keyword: 
Cyanotypes, Architecture, Decoration, Art, Victorian Fin-de-siècle, Rossetti, The Loving Cup, Decadence, Furniture, Prussian Blue.
Subject: 
Architecture
Subject: 
Country homes--Great Britain
Subject: 
Interior decoration -- Great Britain
Subject: 
Photography--History--19th century
Category of Material: 
Visual
Sub-Category: 
Analogue photography
Sub-Category: 
Cyanotypes (photographic prints)
Technique Used: 
Blueprint process
Support: 
Paper
Creation Site: 
England
Creation Site: 
Scotland
Creation Site: 
Wales
Time Period Covered: 
19th Century CE
Places Covered: 
England
Places Covered: 
Scotland
Places Covered: 
Wales
Current Repository: 
The University of Manchester Library, U.K.
Provenance: 
Thomas Maileander, Artist
Rights Holder - Image: 
The University of Manchester Library
Access Rights: 
Creative Commons License
Notes: 
Worldcat lists one complete set of Intérieurs Anglais, at the Stiftung Bibliothek Werner Oechslin, Switzerland. Another complete set is owned by Yale University, located at the British Art Center, Folio A 2014 71. The Getty Research Institute holds 82 of the set of 86 cyanotypes (lacking nos. 10, 65, 67 and 81). The Royal Institute of British Architects have eight photographs from this series also in cyanotype, with the same numbering 1-68 (nos. 1, 7, 37, 49, 58, 61, 66 and 67).
Date Captured (yyyy-mm-dd): 
2017-08-23
Image Creation Technique: 
Digital capture by The University of Manchester Library
Date Image Added (yyyy-mm): 
2017-08
Metadata Language: 
eng-GB
Collection Code: 
Photography