Photograph
Hills and Saunders Limited [photographers]
Category
Photographs
Date
1861
Materials
Photographic paper
Measurements
97 mm (H)59 mm (W)
Place of origin
Oxford
Order this imageCollection
Lanhydrock, Cornwall
NT 889240.15
Summary
Studio photograph, head and shoulders, of a young man sitting on a chair. He wears a dark jacket edged with binding and buttoned with the top button only. Contained in small brown leather album with two ornate brass clasps and a small brass shield on front with three engraved initials, SCD. c.1861 (possibly Sophia Dickinson)
Provenance
A gift from the Hon. Gerald Agar-Robartes, 7th Viscount Clifden, who gave Lanhydrock to the National Trust in 1953. This album and photographs belonged to the Dickinson family; Mary Dickinson, 1853-1921, marrying the Hon. Thomas Charles Agar-Robartes, later 6th Viscount Clifden, 1844-1921.
Marks and inscriptions
(printed on reverse photograph) PHOTOGRAPHERS/TO /Prince of Wales feathers/ H.R.H./THE PRINCE OF WALES./HILLS AND SAUNDERS,/OXFORD
Makers and roles
Hills and Saunders Limited [photographers] , photographer