The Hon. Alexander George Agar-Robartes, MC (1895-1930)
E. I. Ellery [photographer] Truro
Category
Photographs
Date
1912 (circa)
Materials
Photographic paper
Measurements
95 mm (H); 65 mm (W)
Place of origin
Truro
Order this imageCollection
Lanhydrock, Cornwall
NT 885129.9
Summary
Studio photograph, head and shoulders, of the Hon. Alexander Agar-Robartes, 1895-1930. He is wearing a medium coloured jacket with bound revers, waistcoat and darker tie, and the back of a carved chair is just visible behind. c.1912 Mounted in slide-in leather folding frame, LAN.D.16. One of nine photographs (collodion or gelatin P.O.P?) mounted in small carte-de-viste format. Each mount has a gilt beveled edge, (except vi and vii). i-v and viii have mounts gold stamped "E.J. Ellery 32, River Street Truro". vii and ix have mounts inscribed in pencil "E.I. Ellery Newquay". vi is unsigned. All the mounted photographs are in a folding leather case. The surround for each mounted photograph has a gilt decoration on leather with a cover glass. Behind each leather surround is a layer of brown moire effect paper. - SC 2003.
Provenance
A gift of the Hon. Victor Agar-Robartes, later 8th Viscount, whose elder brother, the Hon. Gerald Agar-Robartes, gave Lanhydrock to the National Trust in 1953.
Marks and inscriptions
(in pencil below photograph) E.I. Ellery/Newquay Written in pencil on reverse 'Cecil'
Makers and roles
E. I. Ellery [photographer] Truro, photographer