Photograph
Sawyer (photographer) Norwich
Category
Photographs
Date
1870
Materials
Photographic paper
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Snowshill Manor and Garden, Gloucestershire
NT 1336795
Summary
Black and white portrait photograph, printed on plain paper stuck on card (photographer's carte de visite). Below picture: 'J R Sawyer Norwich'. On reverse, in pencil at the top: 'A B Spencer 12 yrs. old' (Amy Blanche Spencer, Charles Wade's mother). Printed below in an arc: 'Solem certissima signa sequuntur', then a representation of the sun. Below that, 'Sawyer's Italian Studios 46 London St. Norwich. This portrait is registered No. [in black ink] 28501'. At the bottom, 'Further copies may be obtained and it can be reduced for the smallest locket or enlarged to any size, up to that of life.' Picture of a girl wearing a full-skirted dress, hair band, and reading a book, seated on a button-back chair in a room with moulded dado and pillar.
Provenance
Given to the National Trust with Snowshill Manor in 1951 by Charles Paget Wade.
Makers and roles
Sawyer (photographer) Norwich, photographer