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Image Number: 
JRL17082719
Reference Number: 
VPH.6.5
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 showing the great hall at Astley Hall, Chorley. By Henry Bedford Lemere
Creator: 
Lemere, Bedford Henry (Harry), 1865-1944
Creator Role: 
Photographer
Date Created: 
c1900
Image Sequence Number: 
005
Description: 
Interior view showing the great hall at Astley Hall, Chorley. The great hall has an immensely ornate 17th century plasterwork ceiling containing many putti (cherubs) which are just detectable in the print. There is fine oak furniture and partial wooden panelling featuring arches and columns visible in the hall. The highly decorative staircase also dates from the 17th century and has a carved acanthus scroll balustrade and square newels topped with vases of flowers. A large lantern style light hangs in the centre of the hall. There is a large fireplace with a carve feature overmantel. Above the fireplace is a mounted deer head. The Charnock family built the original timber-framed Astley Hall in the late 15th century. In 1665, Margaret Charnock married Richard Brooke (of Mere) and they built the present frontage to the property in the 17th century. The property remained with the Brooke family until moving through marriage into the Parker family in the 18th century. It was inherited by Reginald Tatton, nephew by marriage to the Parkers in 1906. In 1922 the house and its contents were given to Chorley Corporation by Reginald, as a memorial to the local men killed in World War I. It has since been maintained as a museum.
Keyword: 
Cherubs; Putti; 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: 
England: Lancashire: Chorley
Time Period Covered: 
19th Century CE
Places Covered: 
England: Lancashire: Chorley
Item Height: 
217 mm
Item Width: 
274 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