Detail View: Photography Collection:
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Image Number:
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JRL17082721
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Reference Number:
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VPH.6.6
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Image Title:
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Interior view showing the drawing room at Loseley Park, Littleton. By Henry Bedford Lemere.
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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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1886-10-20
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Page/Sheet:
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6
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Image Sequence Number:
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6
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Description:
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Interior view showing the drawing room at Loseley Park. The drawing room has a gilded ceiling that was especially decorated for a visit to the Park by James I. The fantastically ornate chalk fireplace was carved from a single block of chalk to a design by Holbein. The jambs or legs of the fireplace feature both Corinthian columns and terminal figures (human top half, columnar bottom) and the overmantel has four more extravagantly carved terminal figures incorporated into the decoration. Unidentified paintings hang on either side of the fireplace. Also shown are two Elizabethan ‘maid of honour’ chairs, supposedly used by the maids of Elizabeth I when attending to her at court. In front of the fire is an animal skin [leopard] rug. Loseley Park is situated in the hamlet of Littleton, Surrey. The estate was acquired by More-Molyneux family (who are still resident), at the beginning of the 16th century. Loseley appears in Domesday Book of 1086 as ‘Losele’. There is some fading to the edges and some small flaws in the print itself, likely sustained in the printing process rather than a flaw to the original plate or negative.
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Keyword:
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Country House; Drawing Room; Fireplace; Holbein; Terminal figures.
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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: Surrey: Littleton
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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: Surrey: Littleton
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Item Height:
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277 mm
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Item Width:
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218 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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