COLLECTION NAME:
Photography Collection
Record
Image Number:
JRL17082749
Reference Number:
VPH.6.20
Image Title:
Interior view of the great hall at Audley End House, Essex, looking towards the screen. By Henry Bedford Lemere, 27th of February 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:
1891-02-27
Page/Sheet:
20
Image Sequence Number:
20
Description:
Interior view of the great hall at Audley End, Essex, looking towards the screen. At the far end can be seen the magnificent Jacobean oak screen in the great hall which incorporates numerous terminal figures (human top half, columnar bottom) into its design. The ceiling has ornate beams and decorative plasterwork; various flags hang down between the exposed timbers. The hall is partially panelled and above the panelling hang a number of paintings (unidentified portraits) and more, smaller, flags. Also visible is the fireplace, which bears a large carved crest (possibly that of Baron Braybrooke) and also incorporates neoclassical statues from Robert Adam's demolished library alongside older woodwork. According to the Bedford Lemere daybook the image was taken for Lord Braybrooke, C C Neville, the owner of Audley End. The house was built 1605-1614 by John Thorpe and Bernard Janssen, for the Earl of Suffolk, Treasurer to James I and the Architect was probably a relative of Cornelius Jansen, portrait painter. In 1668 King Charles II bought the house as a base for attending Newmarket races but in 1701 it was returned to the Suffolk family by William III. During the 18th century, the house underwent several major alterations and much of the present house structure dates from after 1762 when a vast rebuilding and restoration programme was carried out, which included interior work by Robert Adam. The Jacobean style interior, as seen today, dates from a refurbishment carried out in the 1820s by the third Baron Braybrooke. In the Second World War, Audley End House was requisitioned for a number of military uses, primarily as Special Operations Executive "Station 43", for training Polish agents. In1948 it was sold to the Ministry of Works. It is currently in the stewardship of English Heritage and remains the family seat of the Lords Braybrooke.
Keyword:
Jacobean Country House; Great Hall; Terminal Figures; 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:
England: Essex: Saffron Walden
Time Period Covered:
19th Century CE
Places Covered:
England: Essex: Saffron Walden
Item Height:
235 mm
Item Width:
284 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
