Helen Bulwer
Category
Photographs
Date
Unknown
Materials
Photographic paper
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Snowshill Manor and Garden, Gloucestershire
NT 1336850
Summary
Black and white portrait photograph, printed on paper stuck onto a white photographer's card (carte de visite). Below picture, printed 'Ayers Yarmouth'. On reverse, printed 'Thomas Ayers Photographic Studio 8 Regent Road Yarmouth' and a logo of intertwined T & A; in pencil 'Helen Bulwer'. Picture of a woman dressed in long dark dress with ruffles around bottom of skirt, bow at the neck. She is leaning on an ornate, carved chair with a padded book rest with fringe on the top of the back. She is reading a book that rests on the chair back. Swagged curtain behind.
Provenance
Given to the National Trust with Snowshill Manor in 1951 by Charles Paget Wade.