The Hon. Constance Margaret Agar- Robartes (1890-1936) and her brother The Hon. Arthur Victor Agar-Robartes, later 8th Viscount Clifden (1887-1974) as children
Category
Photographs
Date
1897
Materials
Measurements
100 x 126 mm
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Lanhydrock, Cornwall
NT 886541
Summary
A photograph of a young girl and a boy with a dog, a terrier, in front of a crenellated wall at Lanhydrock. The Hon. Constance Agar-Robartes, 1890-1936, is wearing a pale summer coat with large collar and buttons down the front and a boater with bow, and has her left hand on the dog which is standing on the wall. The Hon. Victor Agar-Robartes, 1887-1974, wears a suit with buttonhole in his lapel, and is half sitting on the wall holding the dog with his right hand. Wire netting and trees behind. One of thirteen modern photographs developed from a previously unseen roll of film taken circa 1897, found in the attics at Lanhydrock 2007.
Provenance
A gift from the Hon. Gerald Agar-Robartes, later 7th Viscount Clifden, 1883-1966, who gave the house to the National Trust in 1953. One of thirteen modern photographs developed from a previously unseen roll of film taken circa 1897, found in the attics at Lanhydrock 2007.