Jamaica and Lillah McCarthy: album
Prints: GB Shaw
Category
Photographs
Date
Unknown
Materials
Textile
Collection
Shaw's Corner, Hertfordshire
NT 1715288.1
Summary
The album contains platinum prints in a leather and fabric album with satin end papers and each page holding four prints [not all filled]. Images are inserted by slots in the page. All pages are green, end papers cream, cover greens. All images captured by GB Shaw. Features GB Shaw's trip to Jamaica to visit Sydney Olivier and family (6 January 1911 - 11 January 1911). There are also views of English locations, many including Lillah McCarthy. Please note: the album images do not have measurements in order to avoid unnecessary handling/removal of prints, all untrimmed and approximately 10.2 by 17.6 cm. For the same reason not all have been removed to check the verso's.
Provenance
The Shaw Collection. The house and contents were bequeathed to the National Trust by George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) together with George Bernard Shaw's photographic archive.
Makers and roles
Prints: GB Shaw