Photograph and frame
Category
Photographs
Date
Unknown
Materials
Photograph, glass and wood
Measurements
295 x 354 x 30 mm
Order this imageCollection
Tyntesfield, North Somerset
NT 40620.4
Summary
A sepia photograph of Charlton House in a wooden frame which has some sort of brown coating. The photograph has a card mount and is under glass. A label on the back reads: S. H BILES, / WHOLESALE & RETAIL / PICTURE & SHOW-CARD FRAME / MANUFACTURER / 120, VICTORIA STREET, BRISTOL.
Provenance
This memory/keepsake trunk was instigated by George Abraham Gibbs (1873-1931) at some point after the death of his first wife Victoria (Via) Florence de Burgh Gibbs (1880-1920) and before, or shortly after, he married his second wife, Ursula Lawley, in 1927. He filled it with items belonging to himself and Via, and presented it to their daughter, Doreen, who added further items to the trunk. Upon Doreen’s death in 2008, the trunk and its contents were inherited by Doreen’s daughter, Victoria Eyre.