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Image Number: 
JRL17082737
Reference Number: 
VPH.6.14
Series Title: 
Intérieurs Anglais, an album of 50 cyanotypes of British house interiors by Bedford Lemere & Co. 1880’s-1890’s
Parent Work Title: 
Interior view looking towards the staircase in the great hall at Rhinefield House, Brockenhurst, Hampshire. By Henry Bedford Lemere, September 1891
Creator: 
Lemere, Bedford Henry (Harry), 1865-1944
Creator Role: 
Photographer
Date Created: 
1891-09
Image Sequence Number: 
014
Description: 
Interior view looking towards the staircase in the great hall at Rhinefield House, Brockenhurst, Hampshire. The wooden staircase is just discernible behind elaborate wooden arcading. Perhaps the most stunning feature of the great hall itself is the hammerbeam roof, which is only fractionally visible in the print. The walls are partially panelled. Rhinefield was built 1888-1890 to designs by W H Romaine-Walker and Tanner for Miss Mabel Walker, and later her husband, Lieutenant L Walker-Munro, for whom the image was taken. After the death of her husband, Lieutenant Commander Munro, Mrs Walker-Munro continued living at Rhinefield until her death in 1934. In 1951 the House was sold by the Walker-Munro family. Since 1982 Rhinefield has been a hotel. There are some very small flaws in the print itself, likely sustained in the printing process rather than a flaw to the original plate or negative.
Keyword: 
Victorian; Country House; Great Hall; Staircase.
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: Hampshire: Brockenhurst
Time Period Covered: 
19th Century CE
Places Covered: 
England: Hampshire: Brockenhurst
Item Height: 
284 mm
Item Width: 
231 mm
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
Bibliography: 
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