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 737104

Category On-line Digital Images

Copy of BL 19160

Scope and Content Saloon, 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. This magnificent room, designed in a collaboration between the Adams, father and sons, has a splendid coved ceiling with long plasterwork tendrils in the corners. The Rococo chimneypiece and overmantel is an updated version of the fireplace downstairs in the dining room, and the walls are lined with painted landscapes, Classical fantasies by the French artist, William Delacour, which were commissioned by William Adam and completed in 1761. The 4th Marquess of Tweeddale commissioned William Adam in 1729 to improve Yester House and decorate the interior. Adam and his sons were at work at intervals from 1729 to 1769, and the decoration of the saloon, regarded by many to be the finest room in Scotland, was conceived by William although the work was carried out by son, Robert, with other son, John, as business partner. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

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