Photograph
Frederick Charles Bird
Category
Photographs
Date
1870
Materials
Photographic paper
Measurements
92 mm (H)56 mm (W)
Place of origin
Bath
Order this imageCollection
Lanhydrock, Cornwall
NT 889241.33
Summary
Studio photograph, head and shoulders, of a young man, wearing dark jacket with bound edges, waistcoat and tie Vignette 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 in brown on reverse) BY APPOINTMENT/(Prince of Wales feathers)/FREDK. C. BIRD/ POTOGRAPHER AND PORTRAIT PAINTER/38, MILSOM STREET/BATH (and) Duplicates of this Portrait may always/be obtained. It can also be enlarged up/to life size and finished in Oils, Crayons/or water Colours.
Makers and roles
Frederick Charles Bird, photographer