George Nathaniel Curzon, Marquis Curzon of Kedleston (1859-1925)
Harry Furniss (Wexford 1854 - Hastings 1925)
Category
Photographs
Date
Unknown
Materials
Photographic paper
Measurements
16 x 21 ins
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Montacute House, Somerset
NT 598012
Caption
In 1915 the lease of Montacute was taken on by ‘that most superior person George Nathanial Curzon’. He had a genuine love of old buildings, spending much of his life and fortune restoring Montacute and his family homes at Kedleston, Bodiam Castle and Tattershall Castle (all NT).
Summary
Photographic reproduction of an Ink drawing. Caricature portrait of George Nathaniel Curzon, Marquis Curzon of Kedleston (1859-1925) by Harry Furniss (1854-1925) bearing signature Hy. F. (1888?). Full length turned to left, profile. Written on the back 'I am George Nathanial Curzon I am a most superior person'.
Makers and roles
Harry Furniss (Wexford 1854 - Hastings 1925), artist