COLLECTION NAME:
Photography Collection
Record
Image Number:
JRL17082725
Reference Number:
VPH.6.8
Image Title:
Interior view of the music room at 8 Kensington Palace Gardens, looking towards the fireplace, By Henry Bedford Lemere, 1889.
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:
1889
Page/Sheet:
8
Image Sequence Number:
8
Description:
Interior view of the music room at No. 8 Kensington Palace Gardens, looking towards the fireplace. The fireplace is an inglenook with a painted pastoral scene built into the overmantel and two upholstered benches with footstools at each side. There are two additional winged chairs stood in front of the fire. Above the fireplace is a wooden viewing gallery and various string instruments are on display above the panelled walls. Kensington Palace Gardens is a street in west central London with some of the most expensive properties in the world. It was built from the 1840s onwards, on part of the grounds of Kensington Palace and the freehold still belongs to the Crown Estate. Originally called The Queen's Road it was renamed Kensington Palace Gardens around 1870 when plane trees were planted in the avenue. No. 8 was the location of the London Cage, an MI19 prisoner of war facility (interrogation centre) used by the British government during the Second World War and the Cold War. No. 8 was demolished in 1961 and replaced by a glass-and-steel block of four apartments designed by Richard Seifert and completed in 1964.
Keyword:
Inglenook; Fireplace; Music.
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: Greater London: London: Kensington and Chelsea: Kensington
Time Period Covered:
19th Century CE
Places Covered:
England: Greater London: London: Kensington and Chelsea: Kensington
Item Height:
234 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
