Unknown Villa in Cervignano, Italy, 1916
Category
Photographs
Date
May 1916 - Jul 1916
Materials
Photographic paper attached to cartridge paper page of album
Measurements
43 x 66 mm
Place of origin
Cervignano
Collection
Attingham Park, Shropshire
NT 610240.6
Summary
A monochrome photograph showing an unknown villa, presumably in Cervignano, Italy. It is three stories high, situated behind a wall with tall metal gates. There are trees to the right of the gates. In front of the wall is a large statue of a female figure on a tall plinth. Leading from the base of the plinth is a low stone wall. Photograph Number 5 of of 7 photographs, on Page 5 of Edith Teresa Hulton's Small Snapshot Album of Cervignano May - July 1916 (CMS Number 610240.1). Edith Teresa Hulton (1890-1972), later Lady Berwick, worked as a Red Cross volunteer in a variety of locations, including Cervignano in the province of Friuli in north east Italy where she worked in the soldiers’ canteen, in the Italian war zone during World War I. She married Thomas Henry Noel-Hill, 8th Baron Berwick of Attingham (1877-1947) on 30th June 1919 in Venice, Italy.
Provenance
8th Lady Berwick collection; bequeathed to the National Trust by Edith Teresa Hulton, Lady Berwick (1890-1972).