A youth on a bicycle on the open road
Category
Photographs
Date
1898 (circa)
Materials
Measurements
79 x 79 mm
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Lanhydrock, Cornwall
NT 886561.18
Summary
A photograph of a youth, his face in shadow, on a bicycle on open road, riding towards the photographer. He wears a suit and a peaked cap. Several horse-drawn open carriages wait at edge of road behind him, a building and trees beyond. At corner on left of photograph stands a lamp post. Contained in an olive green Kodak photograph album containing family photographs, c.1898
Provenance
A gift from the Hon. Gerald Agar-Robartes, 7th Viscount Clifden, 1883-1966, who gave the house to the National Trust in 1953 and continued to live there until his death.