The Athenaeum Club. May, 1914 - The Hon. Cecil Edward Agar-Robartes, (1892-1939), sits in the middle holding whippet/lurcher
Thomas Stearn & Sons [photographers] Cambridge
Category
Photographs
Date
May 1914
Materials
Photographic paper
Measurements
215 mm (H)274 mm (W)
Place of origin
Cambridge
Order this imageCollection
Lanhydrock, Cornwall
NT 888030
Summary
Mounted formal photograph, entitled The Athenaeum Club, with nineteen young men standing and sitting in a garden, an ivy covered brick building and wall with trees behind. The Hon. Cecil Agar-Robartes, 1892-1939, sits in the middle holding whippet/lurcher; another young man on the right holds a terrier in his right arm. May 1914. Listed below are the names of the young men: a list of the young men; Back row, left to right, G.H. Allgood, Marquis of Huntington, G. Birkbeck, K Gladstone; middle row, left to right, R.J.F. Chance, M.C. Lawrence, W. Holland Hibbert, G.K. Dunning, A. Milburn, I.M. Headley, holding a terrier; Front row, left to right, A.W.H. James, G.L. Davies, O.J. Lawrence, Hon. C.E. Agar Robartes, Marshall Field, J.P. Walker, O. Lyttelton, R.S. Clarke. See also LAN.PH.1526.14.
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 sisters, Everilda and Violet, until his death in 1966.
Marks and inscriptions
On mount above and below photograph: (in gold) The Athenaeum Club May 1914 either side of (in red) a belt in shape of an oval with ATHENAEUM on belt and an owl in centre. Below the photograph are nineteen names in gold. On mount below photograph: (in black) Stearn |& Sons, Cambridge On reverse: (in pencil on) Athenaeum Club/1914
Makers and roles
Thomas Stearn & Sons [photographers] Cambridge, photographer