'Effie', Lady Bancroft (1839 - 1921)
Category
Photographs
Date
Unknown
Materials
Photographic paper
Measurements
175 x 125 x 5 mm
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Clandon Park, Surrey
NT 1440816.2.9
Summary
Glazed photographic print of the actress-manager 'Effie', Lady Bancroft (1839 - 1921), considered, with her husband, Sir Squire Bancroft (left hand panel), to be the inventors of 'drawing-room comedy'. Higher of the three photographs to left of bevelled glass panel on centre screen.
Provenance
Marked in Lady Iveagh’s 1966 Inventory, p25Purchased in 1986 with the aid of a grant from the V&A Museum Purchase Grant Fund and the Monument Trust