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Rod stalks Kristin on the roof in this frame from "Tomorrow's Girls," our developing comic.
Learn more about Rod, Kristin, and the Tomorrow Girls at the preview site, www.tomorrowsgirls.wordpress.com .
'render unto caesar'
original painting: 'Caesar's Joy' by Vasily Polenov
process: .jpg to .txt kludging, rotating, photoshop cc
A visit in Biddulph Grange Garden in late July 2021. The heatwave seemed to have ended, and was much cooler here, but was warm in certain areas.
Heading back up to the terrace near the Cherry Orchard.
Biddulph Grange was developed by James Bateman (1811–1897), the accomplished horticulturist and landowner; he inherited money from his father, who had become rich from coal and steel businesses. He moved to Biddulph Grange around 1840, from nearby Knypersley Hall. He created the gardens with the aid of his friend and painter of seascapes Edward William Cooke. The gardens were meant to display specimens from Bateman's extensive and wide-ranging collection of plants.
Biddulph Grange "started life as a bog-standard rectory, but around 1840 it was bought by James Bateman...he and his wife Maria had a passion for plants and the money to indulge their interests, and as the house was enlarged they began work on the surrounding gardens. In this they were helped by an artist friend, Edward William Cooke, who was not just a keen designer but whose father-in-law owned one of the biggest plant nurseries of the day, Loddiges of Hackney." The gardens "were designed by James and Maria Bateman. Bateman...bought specimens brought back by the great Victorian plant-hunters and became an expert on orchids."
Bateman was president of the North Staffordshire Field Society, and served on the Royal Horticultural Society's Plant Exploration Committee. The gardens "were meant to display specimens from Bateman's extensive and wide-ranging collection of plants." He especially loved Rhododendrons and Azaleas. Bateman was "a collector and scholar on orchids," He had a number of notable sons who grew up at Biddulph Grange, including the painter Robert Bateman.
His gardens are a rare survival of the interim period between the Capability Brown landscape garden and the High Victorian style. The gardens are compartmentalised and divided into themes: Egypt, China, etc.
In 1861 Bateman and his sons, who had used up their savings, gave up the house and gardens, and Bateman moved to Kensington in London. Robert Heath bought Biddulph Grange in 1871. After the house burnt down in 1896, architect Thomas Bower rebuilt it.
The post-1896 house served as a children's hospital from 1923 until the 1960s; known first as the "North Staffordshire Cripples' Hospital" and later as the "Biddulph Grange Orthopaedic Hospital" (though it took patients with non-orthopaedic conditions as well. Under this latter title the hospital's role expanded to accommodate adults, continuing in operation into the mid-1980s.) The 15 acres (6.1 ha) garden became badly run-down and neglected during this period, and the deeply dug-out terraced area near the house around Dahlia Walk was filled in level to make a big lawn for patients to be wheeled out on in summertime. The Bateman property was (and still is) divided: the hospital got the house and its gardens, and the uncultivated remainder of Biddulph Grange's land became the Biddulph Grange Country Park.
Until 1991 the house and gardens "housed an orthopaedic hospital, whose managers (understandably enough) were more concerned with their patients than the weird stuff looming out of rocky outcrops in the grounds. For the best part of a century the gardens decayed, visited only by passing vandals and, more rarely, intrepid folly-hunters."
Grade II* Listed Building
Description
BIDDULPH C.P. BIDDULPH GRANGE
SJ 85 NE
7/2 Biddulph Grange
20.3.74
GV II*
Country house. The house of 1848-60 for John Bateman overlays an earlier
farmhouse; virtually replaced by the present grandiloquent mansion of
1897 by John Bower. The former is yellow brick and render with slate
roofs, the latter is built of sandstone ashlar with lead roofs and brick
chimneys. The style employed is a revived English Baroque. Garden front:
in 3 parts: the Main Elevation is 3 storeys rising in centre to attic
storey under pediment; second floor cill-string, cornice and parapet,
balustraded between sides and centre which have urn finials. 10-bay
front with outer and central 2-bay breaks flanked by pilasters, the centre
break has also a central pilaster. Glazing bar sashes in architraves,
cornices to first floor centre windows, antae to centre of window heads
of outer bays; alternate triangular and segmental pediments to ground
floor windows in pairs; understated entrance to left in architrave and
with bracketted cornice. Irregularly placed balustraded tower (?belvedere
or water tower) to right of centre and set back unbalances the composition.
To left, one of the surviving portions of Bateman's house, 2 storeys,
raised quoins, Italianate, irregular 2+2 window arrangement with 2 full-
height hipped square bays (tripartite windows); principal feature is the
projecting semi-circular-headed domed porch to left with paired columns
and full entablature marking the position of Bateman's study; the left-
hand wing is set back and has round-headed plate-glass sashes in rusticated
surrounds. To right, further projecting irregular bay of 2 round-arch
windows and corbelled balcony, decorative frieze and cornice all built
out over a garden path. Entrance front: 3 parts to right of 3 storeys
project progressively towards the centre and elaborate port-cochère round-
arched with twinned Corinthian columns set back from angles surmounted
by balustraded parapet with urn finials. Interior: the 1897 house has
a splendid staircase with massive marble Ionic columns embraced by semi-
circular bays of a balustraded landing and 3-tiered staircase behind with
stained glass lighting first landing; coffered ceiling to otherwise
plain hall. More important is Bateman's study to the south, French-
inspired. Parquet floor, part-mirrored walls, flat-domed centre to
ceiling and much gilt enrichment; pedimented doorcases. The room is
set behind the domed porch and over the cascade of steps (q.v.) which
lead out to Bateman's miniature landscape park. John Bateman, the
horticulturist, started Biddulph Grange in 1848 from an unpromising
farmhouse set in a marsh. He had already commenced his horticultural
career at his Father.'s house, Knypersley Hall (q.v.), notably the culture
of orchids. Although the architect of Biddulph Grange is unknown, much of
Bateman's enterprise was worked out with his friend, the painter E.W. Cooke,
with whom he shared a passion for ferns. Work was completed to both house
and gardens by 1860; Bateman, having exhausted his funds derived from his
Father's pump manufactury, was forced to relinquish it. Heath, a mine
owner purchased the house and had it considerably enlarged after a severe
fire, completing the work in 1897, the year of Bateman's death.
Listing NGR: SJ8923459207
Gate here to a private area of the house.
You can see the Camellia House tearoom in the distance.
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Render of the coming soon. Mostly stolen from Mathew Clayson, but slightly different, longer and a different color. The actual build ran at Fullerton, but no pics of the model yet.
This is a render I made featuring Mr. Gold and my hand. The hand is real, Mr. Gold is rendered. I do not own Mr. Gold, actually (but I wish I did).
Check out how I did it on my blog:
Residential Design Traditional, we were to develop four spaces in a house in a traditional style. I chose French Baroque. The four spaces were: kitchen, great room, master bedroom, and master bathroom.
Taïkoo Hui - Tianhe, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China
HDA : Specialist Design consultants
Client : Swire Properties Inc.
Architect: Arquitectonica
Date : 2005 - 2010
See more at : www.hda-paris.com/