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 737105

Category On-line Digital Images

Copy of BL 19160/A

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. The saloon has a coved ceiling and a magnificent Classical cornice below which are painted wall panels by the French artist, William Delacour. These Classical fantasies, which imitate tapestry, were commissioned by William Adam and not completed until 1761. The saloon is agreed by many to be the finest room in Scotland. William Adam conceived the idea of the coved ceiling, carried out, after much discussion, by his sons, John, the business manager, and Robert, the executant. The use of painted panels in interior decoration was further developed by Robert in the style which he used in the great state rooms of his English houses. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

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