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Image Number: 
JRL17082743
Reference Number: 
VPH.6.17
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 of the boudoir at Standish Hall, Wigan. By Henry Bedford Lemere
Creator: 
Lemere, Bedford Henry (Harry), 1865-1944
Creator Role: 
Photographer
Date Created: 
c1900
Image Sequence Number: 
017
Description: 
Interior view of the boudoir at Standish Hall, Wigan, looking towards the fireplace. There is an elaborate plasterwork ceiling and ornamented panelling on the walls. The fireplace is as high as the ceiling and bears two coat of arms, one is the Royal Arms of the British monarch, bearing the lion and the unicorn, these arms are framed by three terminal figures (human top half, columnar bottom).The mantelpiece has porcelain figurines and a mantel clock in the centre. To the side of the fireplace is a piano. The Standishes held the manor of Standish and Standish Hall estate from the thirteenth century. Following the extinction of the male line upon the death of Ralph Standish in 1755, the estate passed through female lines until it was sold and broken up after the death of Henry Nouailles Widdrington Standish in 1920. 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: 
Boudoir; Fireplace.
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: Greater Manchester: Wigan: Standish
Time Period Covered: 
19th Century CE
Places Covered: 
England: Greater Manchester: Wigan: Standish
Item Height: 
221 mm
Item Width: 
280 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