COLLECTION NAME:
Photography Collection
Record
Image Number:
JRL17082779
Reference Number:
VPH.6.35
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, detail of the drawing room fireplace at Cragside, Northumberland. By Henry Bedford Lemere, August 1891
Creator:
Lemere, Bedford Henry (Harry), 1865-1944
Creator Role:
Photographer
Date Created:
1891-08
Image Sequence Number:
035
Description:
Interior view, detail of the drawing room fireplace at Cragside, Northumberland. The extravagant inglenook fireplace was built from ten tonnes of Italian marble and was so heavy it was seated directly onto the bedrock below the grand hall. An inglenook has a built in recess area, usually with a shelf or seating, which is just visible. The design of the fireplace has some Neo Classical features such as the Ionic columns that support the mantel and numerous examples of putti (cherubs) in the decoration; but also extensive use of acanthus leaves, fruit and flowers. Two upholstered chairs sit in front of the inglenook and there are paintings on the panelled walls either side of the chimneypiece. One is a Portrait of an Unknown lady, British School, early 19th century, the other A Holstein Peasant Woman, by Miss F. Westphal, 1867. Cragside was built in 1864 for the industrialist and inventor William George Armstrong, 1st Lord Armstrong, by the architect Richard Norman Shaw and the fireplace was designed by his assistant at the time W.R. Lethaby. Cragside included many technological innovations and was the first to have electric lighting powered by water. Cragside has been in the care of the National Trust since 1977 and the property has been open to the public in 1979.
Keyword:
Victorian Country House; Drawing Room; Fireplace; Mantelpiece; Inglenook.
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: Northumberland: Rothbury
Time Period Covered:
19th Century CE
Places Covered:
England: Northumberland: Rothbury
Item Height:
281 mm
Item Width:
239 mm
Current Repository:
The University of Manchester Library, U.K.
Provenance:
Thomas Maileander, Artist
Rights Holder - Image:
The University of Manchester Library
Access Rights:
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
