Interior-general view of Sitting Room

Description Interior-general view of Sitting Room

Date 1905

Collection Records of Bedford Lemere and Company, photographers, London, England

Catalogue Number B 64535

Category Photographs and Off-line Digital Images

Copies SC 737072

Scope and Content Morning Room, Yester House, East Lothian (now a private house) Yester House, the home of the Marquesses of Tweeddale, was built in the early 18th century as a Classical mansion to the design of James Smith & Alexander MacGill. Over the next 250 years, the interior was altered and improved by several of Scotland's most renowned architects, including William Adam and his sons, Robert & John, and the 19th-century architect, Robert Brown. The architectural photographer, Harry Bedford Lemere, was commissioned to photograph the house in 1905. The morning room, one of two rooms that were formed en suite by Robert Brown in the 1830s, has a magnificent coffered ceiling, and a plain white marble fireplace with a huge gilt-framed overmirror. The dark, plain walls display a wealth of family paintings, including a portrait of Lord Charles Hay (second left), younger brother of the 4th Marquess, by the Scottish painter, Allan Ramsay. The room is richly furnished with polished wood floors, Persian rugs and a spectacular crystal chandelier. Robert Brown remodelled these two rooms on the ground floor of the house when he re-orientated the main entrance from the north to the west front, and reconstructed the entrance hall. He formed two interconnecting rooms with coffered ceilings almost identical to that of his entrance hall, elegant Classical cornices, and matching white marble fireplaces at either end. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

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