Detail View: Photography Collection:
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Image Number:
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JRL17082787
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Reference Number:
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VPH.6.39
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Image Title:
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Interior view showing the grand staircase at Sheffield Town hall from the second landing. By Henry Bedford Lemere,1897.
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Parent Work Title:
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Intérieurs Anglais, an album of 50 cyanotypes of British house interiors by Bedford Lemere & Co. 1880’s-1890’s
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Creator:
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Lemere, Bedford Henry (Harry), 1865-1944
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Creator Role:
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Photographer
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Display Creator:
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Bedford Lemere & Co.
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Date Created:
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1897
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Page/Sheet:
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39
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Image Sequence Number:
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39
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Description:
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Interior view showing the grand staircase at Sheffield Town hall from the second landing. The staircase is in the Renaissance revival style, with a carved marble balustrade. The entrance hall is no less impressive with arches and arcading featuring heavily in the architecture of the hall, which has carved alabaster decoration by Frederick William Pomeroy.The ornate carved friezes above the arches incorporate scrollwork and putti (cherubic figures) into the design and depict the industries of Sheffield. Also a portrayed is the slaying of the ‘Dragon of Wantley’, the legend of a dragon-slaying by a knight on Wharncliffe Crags in South Yorkshire, who is protected by a bespoke suit of Sheffield armour. The town hall was designed by E W Mountford. Construction began in 1890 and this print shows the building upon completion in 1897. An extension designed by F. E. P. Edwards in the same style was completed in 1923.
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Keyword:
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Victorian Town Hall; Staircase; Putti; Cherubs; Dragons; Public Building.
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Subject:
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Architecture
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Subject:
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Country homes--Great Britain
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Subject:
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Interior decoration -- Great Britain
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Subject:
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Photography--History--19th century
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Category of Material:
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Photography
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Sub-Category:
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Analogue photography
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Technique Used:
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Blueprint process
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Support:
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Paper
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Creation Site:
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England: South Yorkshire: Sheffield
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Time Period Covered:
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19th Century CE
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Places Covered:
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England: South Yorkshire: Sheffield
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Item Height:
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282 mm
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Item Width:
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238 mm
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Current Repository:
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The University of Manchester Library, U.K.
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Provenance:
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Thomas Maileander, Artist.
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Rights Holder - Image:
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The University of Manchester Library
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Rights Holder - Work:
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The University of Manchester Library
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Access Rights:
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Bibliography:
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Notes:
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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).
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Date Captured (yyyy-mm-dd):
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2017-08-23
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Image Creation Technique:
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Digital capture by Heritage Imaging, The University of Manchester Library
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Date Image Added (yyyy-mm):
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2017-08
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Metadata Language:
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eng-GB
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