Edmund Dickinson
R. Slingsby [photographer] Lincoln
Category
Photographs
Date
1860
Materials
Photographic paper
Measurements
144 mm (H)103 mm (W)
Place of origin
Lincoln
Order this imageCollection
Lanhydrock, Cornwall
NT 889242.16
Summary
Studio photograph, full length, of two men and a boy. The older grey haired man is on the right and sits on a low chair with a fringe and turned legs. He wears a dark suit with a long frock coat, bow tie and pinz nez hanging around his neck (see also 890102.66. . The bearded man standing on the left of the photograph wears a dark suit with jacket done up by top button only. He holds a furled umbrella in his right hand and his left is on the shoulder of the boy who stands in front of him. He is wearing a dark velvet coat with buttoned belt and holds a dark tam-o-shanter in his right hand. Table with patterned cover on the left with draped curtain behind. Painted window on right and patterned carpet. c.1860 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 on reverse with photographer's mark) R. SLINGSBY,/PHOTOGRAPHER,/168, HIGH STREET, LINCOLN.
Makers and roles
R. Slingsby [photographer] Lincoln, photographer