Title

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

Caption

Somerset House, Halifax, Calderdale, 1942. A detailed view of a plaster panel in Somerset House, illustrating Aesop's Fable, the Fox and the Stork. Somerset House originally consisted of a town house and two warehouses, which have since been used as a bank, commercial, residential and local authority residencies. The house dates to 1766 and the warehouses to c1780, and all have undergone 19th and 20th century alterations. The buildings form three sides around a forecourt in the south. The interior of the house has plasterwork by Guiseppe Cortese, including panels illustrating scenes from Aesop's Fables.

Date

1942

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/Historic England Archive

Reference

HRM21B16_124

Model release

No

Property release

No

License type

Rights managed

Available size

72,3Mb (3,4Mb) / 14,2in x 19,8in / 4254 x 5944 (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