Detail View: Photography Collection:
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Image Number:
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JRL17082715
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Reference Number:
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VPH.6.3
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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 showing the fireplace in the salon or picture gallery at Dawpool, Thurstaston. By Henry Bedford Lemere, February 1896
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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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1896-02
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Image Sequence Number:
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003
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Description:
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Interior view showing detail of the magnificent fireplace and viewing gallery in the salon or picture gallery at Dawpool House,Thurstaston. The fireplace is a fantastically elaborate piece of carved stonework that incorporates a curtained gallery area into the overmantel. Mermaids or rather mer-putti (cherubs) feature repeatedly in the decoration. A tiger skin rug sits in front of the fire. The salon has a barrel vaulted ceiling and ornate plasterwork, a strapwork design hosts more merfolk, cornucopias and grotesque faces. There are paintings (unidentified) on display either side of the fireplace, as well as fine examples of Victorian furniture visible. Dawpool House was designed by the renowned architect Richard Norman Shaw for Thomas Henry Ismay, chairman of the White Star Line and his wife Margaret. The couple also worked closely with John Aldam Heaton on the decoration, which was inspired by contemporary fashion. They moved in to their new home in 1884 but after Ismay’s death in 1899, the family were unenthusiastic about continuing to live there and sold it to F. W. P. Rutter. Having served a stint as an officer’s orthopaedic hospital during the First World War, the house was demolished in 1926 or 1927.
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Keyword:
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Victorian; Salon; Art; Shipping; Fireplace.
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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: Merseyside: Wirral: Thurstaston
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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: Merseyside: Wirral: Thurstaston
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Item Height:
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283 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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