29. His Highness Maharaja Krishna Raja Wadiyar IV, Maharaja of Mysore, GCSI, GBE (1884-1940) and Mr. R. H. Campbell, Private Secretary, watching the driving operations, Mysore, India.
Category
Photographs
Date
1919
Materials
Measurements
82 x 136 mm
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Lanhydrock, Cornwall
NT 886556.30
Summary
A photograph of three men standing beside dirt road, with cars parked behind them, looking to the left of the photograph. The Maharaja wears a dark turban, spectacles and a dark coat over trousers and carries a carved stick; Mr. Campbell wears a solar topee or pith helmet, also wears spectacles, and wears a jacket and breeches, his hands in his pockets. 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.