Edith Dickinson
Henry Van der Wade
Category
Photographs
Date
1873
Materials
Photographic paper
Measurements
146 mm (H)104 mm (W)
Place of origin
London
Order this imageCollection
Lanhydrock, Cornwall
NT 889242.2
Summary
Photograph - Studio portrait, three-quarter length, of a young woman, Edith, or Dee, Dickinson, standing with her hands together in front of her holding a dark fan and a white handkerchief. She is wearing a dark evening dress and has a single strand of beads/pearls around her neck and a jewelled crescent in her hair; several rings on the third finger of her right hand. Background with pillar and trees just visible. 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) 1h930 [initial?]
Makers and roles
Henry Van der Wade, photographer