Photograph
Carl Hawkins (photographer) Brighton
Category
Photographs
Date
1877
Materials
Photographic paper
Measurements
94 mm (H)60 mm (W)
Place of origin
Brighton
Order this imageCollection
Lanhydrock, Cornwall
NT 889241.27
Summary
Studio photograph, full length, of a woman standing beside a heavily carved harpsichord(?). She wears a dark dress trimmed with braid, tassels and flounces and her hands are clasped together in front of her. She wears a locket on a ribbon. Behind her is a low fringed velvet chair and a curtain is draped behind the instrument. Plain floor and walls. 1877 The photograph is pasted upside down on the card. Contained in a small brown leather album with single brass clasp engraved Octr. 3rd./1871.
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 around drawing of painter's palette, easel and camera) BRIGHTON SCHOOL OF PHOTOGRAPHY/C.HAWKINS/32, 33 and 38, Preston Street/BRIGHTON/AND/ROYAL POLYTECHNIC/309, Regent Street/LONDON.W./ (and) Negatives kept. Copies or enlargements/can be made at any time.
Makers and roles
Carl Hawkins (photographer) Brighton, photographer