Photograph
Lambert Weston & Son
Category
Photographs
Date
1861
Materials
Photographic paper
Measurements
87 mm (H)59 mm (W)
Place of origin
Dover
Order this imageCollection
Lanhydrock, Cornwall
NT 889240.18
Summary
Studio photograph, full length, of a young man sitting on a carved and upholstered chair with fringe. His right leg is crossed over his left and his right elbow rests on a small table with is draped with cloth. He wears a light-coloured jacket and trousers and holds a bowler hat on his lap. A large book rests on the table. Another carved chair is partially visible on the right of the photograph. Plain wall and patterned floor. Contained in small brown leather album with two ornate brass clasps and a small brass shield on front with three engraved initials, SCD. 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) bird (over) oval within which is writen CRAIGNEZ HONTE (over) PHOTOGRAPHED/From Life by/Lambert Weston and Son,/Waterloo Crescent, Dover;/Sandgate Road, FOLKESTONE.
Makers and roles
Lambert Weston & Son, photographer