University of Glasgow

UNIVERSITY of GLASGOW

 
Part of the Library and University Services

Please note that these pages are from our old (pre-2010) website; the presentation of these pages may now appear outdated and may not always comply with current accessibility guidelines.

The Domestic Landscape 1860-1960

Resources in Special Collections


the bedroom

click on the images to see them in more detail & use the 'back' button to return to this page

  Rudolph Ackermann 90 plates depicting furniture, taken from various volumes of Ackermann's Repository of arts etc [London: 1811-1828] Hepburn q3 

A State Bed

 

 

  Charles Dickens Bleak House (with illustrations by H.K. Browne) London: 1852-1853 Hepburn 186-203 back cover advert from No. 8, Hepburn 193

Advertisement for Heal and Son's Illustrated Catalogue of Bedsteads.

 

  Charles Dickens Bleak House (with illustrations by H.K. Browne) London: 1852-1853 Hepburn 186-203 plate from No. 10, Hepburn 195

Nurse and Patient.

 

  Charles Dickens Bleak House (with illustrations by H.K. Browne) London: 1852-1853 Hepburn 186-203 back cover advert from No. 10, Hepburn 195

Advertisement for Heal and Son's Illustrated Catalogue of Bedsteads.

 

  Robert Kerr  The gentleman's house; or, how to plan English residences, from the parsonage to the palace London: 1864  Sp Coll 2773  page 147

English bedroom & French Bedroom
The primary features of plan in a Bedroom are, first, the door or doors, the fireplace, and the windows; and secondly, the bedstead, the dressing-table, and the wardrobe; and it has to be remembered that every Bedroom must be considered not merely as a sleeping-room but as occasionally a sick-room. 

 

  The studio: an illustrated magazine of fine and applied art London: 1893-1903 (volumes 1-28)  PAA f174-202 vol. 9, 1896-97, page 33, PAA f183

The bed-room in an artist's house (M.H. Baillie Scott, architect)
In our normal condition we may, perhaps, afford to ignore our surroundings, but in illness every detail of decoration is forced upon our attention, and while ugly things become hideous nightmares, beautiful things charm and soothe us as they never did before (p.34)

 

  H. J. Jennings  Our homes and how to beautify them London: 1902  RQ 785  plate 40

A bedroom in white woodwork with inlaid oak furniture.
suitable for a young lady. The Nouveau Art spirit is vey evident here, but is kept within judicious and refined limits, only in the frieze is there a little freedom of form and colour; but the general effect is very captivating (p.235)

 

Return to home page for the domestic landscape