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Auchterarder House Interior-general view of doorway between library and sitting room
SC 736918
Description Auchterarder House Interior-general view of doorway between library and sitting room
Date c. 1888
Collection Records of Bedford Lemere and Company, photographers, London, England
Catalogue Number SC 736918
Category On-line Digital Images
Copy of BL 9748
Scope and Content Library, Auchterarder House, Perth & Kinross (latterly Auchterarder House Hotel and presently a private house) Auchterarder House, a Neo-Jacobean mansion house designed in 1834 by William Burn for Captain James Hunter, was extended and lavishly refurbished in 1886-7 by the architect, Sir John James Burnet, for the railway locomotive magnate, James Reid. The architectural photographer, Harry Bedford Lemere, was commissioned to photograph the interior c.1888. The library, designed in an opulent Baroque style, is panelled in oak and fitted with bookcases lined with leather dust-flaps. The double doors, draped in velvet, lead through to the drawing room, and above is a broken pediment with a Greek inscription and a cartouche bearing the gilded initials, 'JR'. The chair has probably been carefully positioned by Lemere. Harry Bedford Lemere (1864-1944) was one of the most distinguished architectural photographers of his day, and was in great demand by leading architects to photograph and flatter their work. He was also a perfectionist, and often carefully re-positioned furniture within a room until the photographic composition was right. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
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