This material has not yet been fully catalogued. Copyright, date, and quantity information for this record may be incomplete or inaccurate.
The collection comprises an album containing 30 high quality photographs of interiors and exteriors of 2 Seamore Place taken probably between 1918 and 1925. Located just off Curzon Street, Seamore Place has now disappeared but it was very close to Park Lane. Number 2 was a five-storey town house designed by J.B. Papworth in 1835.
Photographs in the album depict: the elevation onto Seamore Place (1 item) and Park Lane (1 item); loggia (1 item); Italian garden (2 items); kitchen (1 item); dining room (2 items); morning room (1 item); hall (1 item); salon (2 items); bedrooms, dressing rooms, boudoir and bathroom (6 items); views from the house of Hyde Park (2 items); George I toilet set 1725 (1 item); and individual pieces of Chippendale furniture circa 1750 (9 items).
The album, which has leather binding and silk end papers, is marked 'Asprey, London, England'.
The album was commissioned by Mr Harold Nickols (d.1925 - not confirmed) who was resident of the house between at least 1918 and 1925. The only other dating evidence is a 1921 Orpen portrait in the Saloon of his daughter Jenny Nickols.
The album contains signature of a Captain De-Vie dated 2006.
There is no evidence of the album's photographer but these images are of the same quality as those taken by Bedford Lemere who photographed No.1 Seamore Place in 1929.
The NMR purchased the album in 2008.
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