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 737074

Category On-line Digital Images

Copy of BL 19152

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 formed on the ground floor of the house by Robert Brown in the 1830s, has a magnificent coffered ceiling and Classical cornice. The dark, plain walls display family paintings, including a portrait (left) of Lady Frances Carteret, wife of the 4th Marquess, by the Scottish painter, Allan Ramsay. The room is very grand, with polished wood floors, Persian rugs and a magnificent crystal chandelier. Much use is made of rich fabrics, and many items of furniture were made for the house by Charles Douglas, a local carpenter. Some of the wood, notably the beech for the frames of the chairs, was cut from trees in the grounds at Yester. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

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