Photograph
Walery [photographer] London
Category
Photographs
Date
Unknown
Materials
Photographic paper
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Snowshill Manor and Garden, Gloucestershire
NT 1336792
Summary
Black and white portrait photograph, printed on plain paper stuck onto pink card with gold trim and text (photographer's carte de visite). Printed below photograph: 'Walery, Photographer to the Queen, 164 Regent Street , London', with a small crown. On reverse photographer's details, including a logo with crown above; in addition to name and address, 'Permanent Photographs on Enamel A special studio for sittings by electric light No [in pencil] 18140'. Three-quarters head and shoulders picture of a woman wearing a Victorian, high collared dress, believed to be Amy Blanche Wade (neé Spencer), Charles Wade's mother.
Provenance
Given to the National Trust with Snowshill Manor in 1951 by Charles Paget Wade.
Makers and roles
Walery [photographer] London, photographer