COLLECTION NAME:
Photography Collection
Record
Image Number:
JRL17082803
Reference Number:
VPH.6.47
Image Title:
Interior view of the ornately carved fireplace in the drawing room at Rawdon House, Hertfordshire. By Henry Bedford Lemere, January 1891.
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:
1891-01
Page/Sheet:
47
Image Sequence Number:
47
Description:
Interior view of the ornately carved fireplace in the drawing room at Rawdon House, Hertfordshire. The fireplace is decorated with two grotesque terminal figures (human top half, columnar bottom) of a satyr and a nymph. The elaborate overmantel has three carved columns decorated with putti (cherubs) and intricate scrollwork. These frame two large and deeply carved scenes of satyrs playing musical instruments. The overmantel is crowned by an intricate frieze that runs the length of the drawing room wall, featuring animals, figures and grotesques. The plaster ceiling has a busy decorative strapwork design. The walls are papered with wooden dado panelling. Occasional tables situated on either side of the fireplace display paintings and photographs. Rawdon House originally dates from the mid-17th century, but was extended and restored by Ernest George and Peto in 1879. In 1898 it became St Monica's Priory, a convent of Augustinian canonesses, a use that lasted until 1969; it has since been converted for use as offices. According to the Bedford Lemere notes, the image was taken for H. K. Ricardo. Since 1910, this fireplace has served as the chimneypiece in the library at Rothamsted Manor House also in Hertfordshire.
Keyword:
Jacobean House; Drawing Room; Fireplace; Terminal Figures; Putti; Cherubs.
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:
England: Hertfordshire: Hoddesdon
Time Period Covered:
19th Century CE
Places Covered:
England: Hertfordshire: Hoddesdon
Item Height:
279 mm
Item Width:
236 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
