Detail View: Photography Collection:
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Image Number:
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JRL17082765
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Reference Number:
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VPH.6.28
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Series Title:
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Intérieurs Anglais, an album of 50 cyanotypes of British house interiors by Bedford Lemere & Co. 1880’s-1890’s
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Parent Work Title:
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Interior view of the great hall at Wollaton Hall, Nottingham. By Henry Bedford Lemere, 11th of September 1885
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Creator:
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Lemere, Bedford Henry (Harry), 1865-1944
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Creator Role:
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Photographer
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Date Created:
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1885-09-11
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Image Sequence Number:
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028
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Description:
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Interior view of the great hall at Wollaton Hall, Nottingham, looking towards the screen and the gallery. The hall has extensive and intricate carved decoration, featuring strapwork and other decorative forms. The roof has an elaborate fake hammer-beam ceiling. Above the Classical screen on the gallery a pipe organ is just visible. The organ is thought to have been made at the end of the 17th century by builder Gerard Smith. There are many unidentified paintings on display in the hall and a great deal of solid wooden furniture. Three ornate light fittings hang down from the ceiling. Wollaton is a prime example of an Elizabethan Prodigy house (these were grand properties on a fantastic scale, often built with a view to housing Elizabeth I and her large retinue) built by the Elizabethan architect Robert Smythson for Sir Francis Willoughby. The house was remodelled in the 18th and 19th centuries, notably by Jeffry Wyatville in the early 19th century. The image was taken for Digby Willoughby, 9th Baron Middleton and owner of Wollaton Hall at the time. In 1925 the building was converted into the Natural History Museum for the City of Nottingham. Wollaton Hall is known for featuring in the Batman film The Dark Knight Rises as the exterior of Wayne Manor. There is some slight fading to the print.
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Keyword:
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Prodigy house; Elizabethan.
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Subject:
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Architecture
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Subject:
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Country homes--Great Britain
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Subject:
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Interior decoration -- Great Britain
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Subject:
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Photography--History--19th century
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Category of Material:
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Visual
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Sub-Category:
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Analogue photography
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Sub-Category:
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Cyanotypes (photographic prints)
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Technique Used:
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Blueprint process
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Support:
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Paper
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Creation Site:
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England: Nottingham
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Time Period Covered:
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19th Century CE
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Places Covered:
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England: Nottingham
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Item Height:
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273 mm
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Item Width:
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234 mm
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Current Repository:
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The University of Manchester Library, U.K.
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Provenance:
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Thomas Maileander, Artist
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Rights Holder - Image:
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The University of Manchester Library
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Access Rights:
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Bibliography:
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Notes:
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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).
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Date Captured (yyyy-mm-dd):
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2017-08-23
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Image Creation Technique:
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Digital capture by The University of Manchester Library
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Date Image Added (yyyy-mm):
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2017-08
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Metadata Language:
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eng-GB
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Collection Code:
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Photography
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