Interior -view of drawing room

Description Interior -view of drawing room

Date 1890

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

Catalogue Number SC 700521

Category On-line Digital Images

Copy of BL 10124

Scope and Content Drawing Room, Gallowhill House, Paisley, Renfrewshire (now demolished) Gallowhill House, a large mansion designed in 1867 by the Glasgow architects, James Salmon & Son, was the home of Peter Kerr of Clark & Company, a large firm of Paisley threadmakers. The architectural photographer, Harry Bedford Lemere, was commissioned to photograph the interior in 1890. The drawing room, with its rich ceiling plasterwork, ornate cornice, and elaborately patterned wallpaper, would have been the height of Victorian opulence. The fabrics of the curtains and furnishings are fringed and tasselled, and every available surface displays an array of objects d'art. The fashionable Victorian drawing room was crammed full of furniture, and had rich fabrics on the walls and furnishings, and displays of ornaments overflowing on every available surface. Such displays were a means of showing off the cultural interests, prosperity and status of the occupants of the house. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

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