Menton - La Baie de Garavent et la Vieille Ville
Category
Photographs
Date
1900
Materials
Photographic paper
Measurements
120 mm (H)184 mm (W)
Place of origin
Menton
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Lanhydrock, Cornwall
NT 889235.74
Summary
Photograph looking across the bay to a town, church tower visible, with headland beyond. Houses and gardens in foreground with wooded slopes on right hand side of photograph. Found loose in a tan leather photograph album with gold and dark brown criss-cross tooling on cover, now in Box 28. c.1900
Provenance
A gift from the Hon. Gerald Agar-Robartes, 7th Viscount Clifden, 1883-1966, 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. The family stayed at the Hotel du Cap Martin in Menton in 1914 from the end of February until mid April.
Marks and inscriptions
(in white on photograph) Menton - La Baie de Garavent et la Vieille Ville (and) ND (and) 857