Thomas Charles Agar-Robartes, 6th Viscount Clifden (1844-1930) and Mary Dickinson, Viscountess Clifden (1853-1921)
Bassano, Alexander
Category
Photographs
Date
1877
Materials
Photographic paper
Measurements
99 x 150 mm
Place of origin
London
Order this imageCollection
Lanhydrock, Cornwall
NT 889237.10
Summary
An oval studio portrait, of a man, the Hon. Thomas Charles Agar-Robartes, later 6th Viscount Clifden, 1844-1930, and a young woman, Mary Dickinson, later Viscountess Clifden, 1853-1921. The man, seated on the left, rests his left elbow and right arm on the back of a chair and looks towards the young woman who is seated in shaped arm chair with right elbow resting on the arm. She is looking at a book which rests on her lap and is held in her left hand. He has a full beard and is wearing a long jacket and plaid trousers; she is wearing a dark dress with bows and ruched sleeves. Plain background with draped curtain on left. Possibly taken at the time of their engagement in 1877. See also LAN.PH.448 and LAN.PH.1490.11. Contained in a dark green leather photograph album with embossed design on front and back, containing twenty four pages, forty eight sides, with slip-in sections and gold printed borders.
Provenance
This album was a gift from the Hon. Gerald Agar-Robartes, 7th Viscount Clifden, who gave Lanhydrock to the National Trust in 1953.
Marks and inscriptions
(printed on reverse) ALEXANDER.BASSANO./.72.PICCADILLY.LONDON.W/(NOW AT 25 OLD BOND STREET W.)
Makers and roles
Bassano, Alexander, photographer