Title

Somerset House, Halifax, Calderdale, 1942. Creator: George Bernard Wood.

Caption

Somerset House, Halifax, Calderdale, 1942. A detailed view of a plasterwork panel depicting a scene from Aesop's Fables, in the reception room of Somerset House. Somerset House is a collection of two warehouses and a town house, arranged around a forecourt in the south, since a bank, commercial and residencial premises. The house dates to 1766, and the warehouses to c1780. The architect is believed to be John Carr of York, and the plasterwork in the reception room, or grand salon, is by Giuseppe Cortese. The rococo plasterwork is believed to have taken ten years to complete, and cost £2,000. The grand salon has oval panels with foliate frames, with scenes depicting Aesop's Fables. This scene shows part of the "Fox and the Stork".

Date

1942

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/Historic England Archive

Reference

HRM21B16_123

Model release

No

Property release

No

License type

Rights managed

Available size

71,7Mb (3,1Mb) / 14,2in x 19,6in / 4257 x 5891 (300dpi)

Keywords

building England interior architecture wall walls arts country British English decoration decorative Yorkshire county palace location century Britain inside interior design literature PLASTER georgian B&W 1940s interior decoration Forties West Yorkshire Indoors black & white black and white B W rococo Halifax 18th century 20th century Eighteenth Century Aesop Aesop's Fables decade plasterwork Somerset House TGN photograph wall panel Rococo era Aesopus Moralisatus Denmark House Historic England George Bernard Wood Wood George Bernard