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Description: | -Furniture by Gillow of Lancaster and much built-in also designed by Norman Shaw between 1869-74 and made by W H Lascelles, other furniture by Boulnois of London, Holland and Sons, Howard and Sons. Also furnityure designed by J Aldam Heaton a favourite local designer of the 1880s.
Paintings by a variety of artists including Henry Hetherington Emmerson (1831-95), Charles Jones (1836-92), Thomas Bowman Garvie (1859-1944), John Turnbull Dixon (1844-1926), Edward Patry (1856-1940), Tjomas Miles Richardson (1784-1848), Mary Lemon Waller (pre1871-1931), John Wilson Carmichael (1800-60), John Roddam Spencer-Stanhope (1829-1908), Thomas Danby (1817-80), james Frncis Danby (1816-75), Charles Henry Napier (1841-1917), Abraham Van Stry (1753-1826), Joseph Pettit (d,1882) and several by Evelyn De Morgan on loan from the de Morgan Foundation. There are also Turkish carpets, contemporary English carpets and curtains, and contemporary light fittings by Lea, Sons and Co of Shrewsbury and adapted cloisonne enamel lamps and other ceramics.
Stained glass by Morris and Co. designed by Burne-Jones, Maddox Brown and G D Rossetti; fireplaces by Shaw, James Forsyth and the chimney piece in the drawing Room by W R Lethaby, Shaw's assistant and carved by Farmer and Brindley.
Sculpture includes John Bell (1811-95) bronze 'The Slave Girl', J H Foley (1818-74) bronze 'Caractacus', 2 Carrara marble busts of Sir William Armstrong by Alexander Munro, 'Undine' in Carrara by Munro and a Parian ware figure of a young girl.
Publications include:-
Irlam, G A. Domestic engineering at Cragside, 1989 and 1991, AB Printers, Leicester.
Anon, Guidebook, 1992,
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