Members of the Hulton family at their house in Mittenwald - August 1903
Richard Freer Austin
Category
Photographs
Date
1903
Materials
Photographic paper attached to card page of album
Measurements
68 x 98 mm
Place of origin
Mittenwald
Order this imageCollection
Attingham Park, Shropshire
NT 610168.40
Summary
A monochrome photograph of a large chalet on a hillside. There are four people standing outside on a first-floor balcony and another six sitting or standing on the lower floor next to the front door. Written in ink underneath the photograph: 'Our house at Mittenwald by the same' and 'Maria, Giuseppina, Ester & Leni on our balcony, Alyne, Nonna, Z, Gio, Charlie and Bim below'. Photograph 39 of 134 contained in Volume 2 of Costanza Hulton's personal photograph albums (1901 - 1906). 'Bim' is short for Bimbele, the Hulton family nickname for Edith Teresa Hulton (1890-1972). She became Lady Berwick when she married Thomas Henry Noel-Hill, 8th Baron Berwick of Attingham (1877-1947) on 30 June 1919. This photograph also features the following people: 'Z' is Costanza (Zina) Hulton (née Mazini) (1863-1939), the mother of Edith Teresa Hulton; 'Gio', i.e. Gioconda Mary Hulton (1887-1940) the sister of Edith Teresa Hulton; Maria Salimbeni and Giuseppina Höfler, servants in the Hulton household in Venice - Ester and Leni were presumably locally hired servants; 'Alyne' i.e. Harriet Alyne Austin (1851-1923, née Hulton), the elder sister of Costanza Hulton’s husband William Stokes Hulton (1852-1921); 'Nonna', the Italian for ‘grandmother’, referring to Linda Villari (1836-1915, née White), the mother of Costanza Hulton; and 'Charlie' i.e. Charles Edward Hulton (1880-1954) the son of Harriet Alyne Austin's elder brother Jessop Henry Fletcher Hulton (1848-1928). This photograph was taken in Mittenwald, a resort in Bavaria by Richard Freer Austin, the husband of Harriet Alyne Austin. It is believed to have been taken in August 1903; 'the same' refers to details of the photographer written under an adjacent photograph - see National Trust Inventory Number 610168.37. See also National Trust Inventory Number 610168.38 and 610168.39.
Provenance
8th Lady Berwick collection; bequeathed to the National Trust by Edith Teresa Hulton, Lady Berwick (1890-1972).
Marks and inscriptions
Writing underneath photograph: 'Our house at Mittenwald by the same' and 'Maria, Giuseppina, Ester + Leni on our balcony, Alyne, Nonna, Z, Gio, Charlie and Bim below'
Makers and roles
Richard Freer Austin, photographer