12. A group by a fence, Mysore India
Category
Photographs
Date
1919
Materials
Measurements
82 x 136 mm
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Lanhydrock, Cornwall
NT 886556.12
Summary
A photograph of a group of men wearing suits and pith helmets, sitting on the edge of a trench next to a lean-to. At centre men two men in conversation, one wearing a black coat and holding an umbrella, the other in a suit and pith helmet. An open wooden stockade at right, with a child in shorts and shirt and pith helmet sitting on top rail. In the distance on the left is a road and a building on stilts with trees beyond. Contained in a grey photograph album containing photographs of the Khedda Operations in the Kakankota Forests of Mysore as witnessed in December 1919 by His Excellency Lord Chelmsford, Viceroy and Governor General of India.
Provenance
A gift from the Hon. Gerald Agar-Robartes, 7th Viscount Clifden, who gave Lanhydrock to the National Trust in 1953 and continued to live there with his two sisters, Everilda and Violet, until his death in 1966. Probably belonged to the Hon. Alexander Agar-Robartes who was Aide-de-camp to Lord Chelmsford, Viceroy of India, in 1919.