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Bourges - Escalier de l'Hotel Lallemand – Antique Print

Bourges - Escalier de l'Hotel Lallemand, [between 1900 and 1910?] — historic photograph
Bourges - Escalier de l'Hotel Lallemand, [between 1900 and 1910?]. Historic photograph from the Historic Print Archive collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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Bourges - Escalier de l'Hotel Lallemand

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A stone staircase in the Hôtel Lallemand, a mansion in the central French city of Bourges, is the subject here, and the building itself is one of the notable late medieval townhouses in the region. Built in the early 1500s for a royal financial official, it blends the Gothic habits of the older Berry region with the new decorative vocabulary of the Renaissance that was spreading into France from Italy. The photograph comes from the Arthur Stanley Riggs Collection, which gathered images of French architecture in the early 1900s, when American students and architects often studied such older buildings. The record dates it only tentatively, so the exact year of the exposure remains uncertain.

Created / published[between 1900 and 1910?]
Medium1 photographic print.
NotesN.D. no. 218. Arthur Stanley Riggs Collection. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Geogr.; Hotels.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,220 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-157149

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