Photograph
Sawyer (photographer) Norwich
Category
Photographs
Date
Unknown
Materials
Photographic paper
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Snowshill Manor and Garden, Gloucestershire
NT 1336859
Summary
Black and white portrait photograph, printed on paper stuck onto a white photographer's card (carte de visite). Below picture, printed 'J R.Sawyers Registered No. 30734'. On reverse, printed 'Solem Certissima Signa Sequuntur' in an arc above a rising sun; below that, 'Sawyers Italian Studio 46, London St. Norwich Negative kept Copies can always be obtained No. 30734. This portrait can be reduced to the smallest Locket or enlarged to any size up to that of life and painted in Oil or Water, Color to Order'. Picture of head and shoulders of a lady wearing a dark ruffled collar and necklace; her hair plaited on her head.
Provenance
Given to the National Trust with Snowshill Manor in 1951 by Charles Paget Wade.
Makers and roles
Sawyer (photographer) Norwich, photographic studio