Daphne Gott, Picnic at Sospel
Category
Photographs
Date
1913
Materials
Photographic paper
Measurements
79 mm (H)53 mm (W)
Place of origin
Sospel
Order this imageCollection
Lanhydrock, Cornwall
NT 889246.82
Summary
Photograph of a young girl, Daphne Gott, with long dark hair and hair band, wearing pale knitted coat with dark buttons and cuffs, kneeling behind dry stone wall, and appears to be modelling something on the wall. Hillside visible behind her. Sospel c.1913 See also LAN.PH.1525.? Contained in a rectangular album with green leatherette cover and brown leather spine.
Provenance
A family album, possibly belonging to the Hon. Gerald Agar-Robartes, 7th Viscount Clifden, who gave Lanhydrock to the National Trust in 1953. Daphne Gott was the daughter of Wilfred Gott and grand daughter of John Gott, Bishop of Truro 1891-1906, who lived at Trernython House, Tywardreath. Wilfred Gott and his family moved to Cornwall after his father's death but sold the house in 1926.
Marks and inscriptions
(written in ink ) Daphne Gott