Interior-general view of doorway and plasterwork in Drawing Room
SC 737068
Description Interior-general view of doorway and plasterwork in Drawing Room
Date 1905
Collection Records of Bedford Lemere and Company, photographers, London, England
Catalogue Number SC 737068
Category On-line Digital Images
Copy of B 64532
Scope and Content Dining 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 dining room, designed by William Adam, is considered to be his best interior at Yester. The fairly heavy Classical cornice is supported by Ionic pilasters around the walls, and the flat ceiling is decorated with splendid Rococo plasterwork, depicting birds, leaves and flowers, at the corners, and is possibly by the plasterer, Joseph Enzer who came to Yester in 1736. The Classical bust above the door is surrounded by plaster garlands. By the 1730s and 1740s Rococo designs, with freely modelled leaf, shell and bird forms, had become fashionable in interior decoration. Rococo, an 18th-century style which was initiated in France, and was often asymmetrical and abstract, light in colour and weight, with shell-like and coral-like forms, and included C- and S-shaped curves, naturalistic flowers, branches, trees, and occasionally whole rustic scenes. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/737068
File Format (TIF) Tagged Image File Format bitmap
Attribution: © Courtesy of HES (Bedford Lemere and Company Collection)
Licence Type: Educational
You may: copy, display, store and make derivative works [eg documents] solely for licensed personal use at home or solely for licensed educational institution use by staff and students on a secure intranet.
Under these conditions: Display Attribution, No Commercial Use or Sale, No Public Distribution [eg by hand, email, web]