Mary Dickinson
Henry Van der Weyde (1838 - 1924)
Category
Photographs
Date
1873
Materials
Photographic paper
Measurements
146 mm (H)105 mm (W)
Place of origin
London
Order this imageCollection
Lanhydrock, Cornwall
NT 889242.1
Summary
Photograph - Studio portrait, three-quarter length, of a young woman, possibly Mary Dickinson, later Viscountess Clifden, 1853-1921, sitting at a small table reading a book. She is wearing a dark evening dress trimmed with lace, beads and ribbons and a chocker necklace and has a plain bracelet on each arm. A vase of flowers is on the table and a palm is just visible on the floor. c.1873 Contained in brown leather album with single brass clasp containing twenty gold edged pages, forty sides, with slip-in sections for cabinet size photos.
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
(in pencil on reverse) 1h929 [initial?]
Makers and roles
Henry Van der Weyde (1838 - 1924), photographer