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Image Number: 
JRL17082759
Reference Number: 
VPH.6.25
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 inner hall at Stafford House, later named Lancaster House, London. By Adolphe Augustus Boucher,1895
Creator: 
Boucher, Adolphe Augustus, 1868 - 1937
Creator Role: 
Photographer
Date Created: 
1895
Image Sequence Number: 
025
Description: 
Interior view of the inner hall at Stafford House, later named Lancaster House, London. Showing the grand hall and principal staircase. The hall and staircase is a mix of Neo-classical features and Rococo grandeur. The composite columns and walls are decorated with scagliola, a composite type of paste containing mineral fragments that resembles marble. There are paintings inlaid on the walls and an elaborate Rococo balustrade. The photograph was taken as part of a set to show the interior designed by architect Benjamin Dean Wyatt. The house which was initially called, York house and later Stafford House was renamed as Lancaster house in 1912 when it was purchased by Sir William Lever, who renamed it in honour of his native county of Lancashire and presented it to the nation in the following year. Since 1922 the building has housed the Government Wine Cellar. From 1924 until shortly after World War II, the house was the home of the London Museum, but it is now used for government receptions and is closed to the public except on rare open days.
Keyword: 
Staircase; Hall.
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 London: London: City of Westminster: St James's
Time Period Covered: 
19th Century CE
Places Covered: 
England: Greater London: London: City of Westminster: St James's
Item Height: 
232 mm
Item Width: 
286 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