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Image Number: 
JRL17082791
Reference Number: 
VPH.6.41
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 dining room fireplace at 3 Rothesay Terrace, Edinburgh. By Henry Bedford Lemere, 1889
Creator: 
Lemere, Bedford Henry (Harry), 1865-1944
Creator Role: 
Photographer
Date Created: 
1889
Image Sequence Number: 
041
Description: 
Interior view of the dining room fireplace at 3 Rothesay Terrace, Edinburgh. The fireplace has a marble surround and an extravagant overmantel in which four ornately carved columns frame a painting of three of the daughters of John Ritchie Findlay; Florence, Dora and Hannah, by the artist Sir George Reid. To the right of the fireplace is a portrait of Susan Findlay, the wife of John Ritchie Findlay. The dining room has a timber beamed ceiling and an oak dado with round brass frames for displaying a collection of plates. A good deal of pottery is on display around the fireplace and an elaborate plasterwork frieze with putti (cherubic figures) and garlands runs around the top of the wall. No 3 Rothesay Terrace was remodelled in 1883 by the architect, Sydney Mitchell, for John Ritchie Findlay, owner of The Scotsman newspaper. In the 1930s the building served as residence for Queen Margret College Domestic Science Institute before being passed to the National Health Service as a Conference Centre in the 1960s. Since 2008 the property has been used as a hotel. There are some tiny flaws in the print itself, likely sustained in the printing process rather than a flaw to the original plate or negative.
Keyword: 
Dining Room; 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: 
Scotland: Edinburgh
Time Period Covered: 
19th Century CE
Places Covered: 
Scotland: Edinburgh
Item Height: 
275 mm
Item Width: 
229 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