COLLECTION NAME:
Photography Collection
Record
Image Number:
JRL17082777
Reference Number:
VPH.6.34
Image Title:
Interior view of the drawing room of St Fagans Castle, Cardiff. By Henry Bedford Lemere, 29th of June 1892.
Parent Work Title:
Intérieurs Anglais, an album of 50 cyanotypes of British house interiors by Bedford Lemere & Co. 1880’s-1890’s
Creator:
Lemere, Bedford Henry (Harry), 1865-1944
Creator Role:
Photographer
Display Creator:
Bedford Lemere & Co.
Date Created:
1892-06-29
Page/Sheet:
34
Image Sequence Number:
34
Description:
Interior view of the drawing room of St Fagans Castle, Cardiff. The room is wood panelled and has a strapwork design plaster ceiling. The fireplace in the drawing room is incorporated into a beautifully carved wooden mantel and overmantel. The legs or jambs of the fireplace are Corinthian columns; the mantel is ornately carved with both angelic figures and grotesques. The overmantel has more elaborately decorated Corinthian columns that stand either side of an armorial crest. There is also strapwork carving on the stone fire surround, which by comparison to the rest of the chimneypiece is rather plain. There are a number of upholstered chairs and highly wrought wooden tables. St Fagans Castle (Welsh: Castell Sain Ffagan) is an Elizabethan mansion in St Fagans, Cardiff, Wales, dating from the late 16th century. A medieval castle dating from the 13th century previously existed on the site. The house and remaining medieval fortifications are Grade I listed. The property was owned by successive Lord Windsors, Earl of Plymouth, until 1947 when the Windsor-Clives gave the house and grounds to the Amgueddfa Cymru - National Museum Wales and the grounds subsequently became the site of the Welsh Folk Museum, now St Fagans National Museum of History.
Keyword:
Elizabethan Manor House: Drawing Room; Fireplace.
Subject:
Architecture
Subject:
Country homes--Great Britain
Subject:
Interior decoration -- Great Britain
Subject:
Photography--History--19th century
Category of Material:
Photography
Sub-Category:
Analogue photography
Technique Used:
Blueprint process
Support:
Paper
Creation Site:
Wales: Cardiff: St Fagans
Time Period Covered:
19th Century CE
Places Covered:
Wales: Cardiff: St Fagans
Item Height:
235 mm
Item Width:
282 mm
Current Repository:
The University of Manchester Library, U.K.
Provenance:
Thomas Maileander, Artist.
Rights Holder - Image:
The University of Manchester Library
Rights Holder - Work:
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 Heritage Imaging, The University of Manchester Library
Date Image Added (yyyy-mm):
2017-08
Metadata Language:
eng-GB
