Mary Dickinson, later Viscountess Clifden (1853-1921)
Lafayette Ltd
Category
Photographs
Date
1880
Materials
Photographic paper
Measurements
118 mm (H)77 mm (W)
Place of origin
London
Order this imageCollection
Lanhydrock, Cornwall
NT 888082
Summary
Studio threequarter length photograph of a woman, Mary Dickinson, later Viscountess Clifden, 1853-1921, sitting on a stone bench, her right elbow on the wall behind and her hand up to her face. She is wearing a satin dress with applique on the bodice and beading around wrists, on bodice and down centre of her skirt. Her hair is in a bun. There is the base of a pillar on the right of the photograph and a backdrop of trees beyond the wall. c. 1880 See also LAN.PH.11, LAN.PH.1790 and LAN.PH.2055
Provenance
A gift from the Hon. Gerald Agar-Robartes, 7th Viscount Clifden, who gave Lanhydrock to the National Trust in 1953.
Marks and inscriptions
(there is a label inside the folder)
Makers and roles
Lafayette Ltd, photographer