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 SC 737071

Category On-line Digital Images

Copy of B 64534

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 interconnecting rooms that were remodelled by Robert Brown in the 1830s, has a coffered ceiling and elegant Classical cornice. The plain, dark walls display a collection of paintings including family portraits, and the room is furnished in rich fabrics and elegant furniture, much of which was made specially for the house by Charles Douglas, a local carpenter. Harry Bedford Lemere (1864-1944) was one of the most distinguished and fashionable architectural photographers of his day, and was often commissioned by wealthy and aristocratic owners to photograph and flatter their country houses. He was also a perfectionist, spending a great deal of time and effort arranging and carefully re-positioning furniture within a room until the photographic composition was right. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

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