Caroline Dickinson, nee Carey
Debenham
Category
Photographs
Date
1870
Materials
Photographic paper
Measurements
138 mm (H)98 mm (W)
Place of origin
Bournemouth
Order this imageCollection
Lanhydrock, Cornwall
NT 889242.11
Summary
Studio portrait, full length, of an old woman, possibly mother of Caroline Dickinson who was daughter of Major General Carey and mother of Mary Dickinson, later Viscountess Clifden, 1853-1921, wearing a dark dress with small bustle and train, dark ruching down the front. On her head she wears a lace cap with dark bow and lappets. She stands facing to the left of the photograph, her right arm resting on a carved cupboard. A draped curtain and painted window are behind her with a striped seat below the window. Patterned carpet. c.1870. See also LAN.PH.1490.7 and LAN.PH.1512.20. . 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
(printed in brown on reverse) E.Debenham/Photographer/GLEN VIEW STUDIO,/OLD CHRISTCHURCH RD./BOURNEMOUTH/This Negative is preserved,/Enlargements can be had finished in/Oils, Watercolor or Crayon/to Order.
Makers and roles
Debenham, photographer