Cragside in the early 1860s
David Dippie Dixon (1842-1929).
Category
Art / Drawings and watercolours
Date
Unknown
Materials
Glass, Paper, Wood
Measurements
145 x 190 mm
Order this imageCollection
Cragside, Northumberland
NT 1226456
Caption
Sadly we don’t know much about the original house at Cragside other than a few sketches by the friends of Lord Armstrong. Here David ‘Dippie’ Dixon, a local historian, showed the modest house at Cragside.
Summary
Drawing of Cragside as it appeared in the early 1860s, by David Dippie Dixon (1842-1929)
Provenance
Armstrong collection. Transferred by the Treasury to The National Trust in 1977 via the National Land Fund, aided by 3rd Baron Armstrong of Bamburgh and Cragside (1919 - 1987).
Makers and roles
David Dippie Dixon (1842-1929)., artist