Agar-Robartes children: The Hon. Arthur Victor Agar-Robartes, later 8th Viscount Clifden (1887-1974), The Hon.Thomas Charles Reginald Agar-Robartes (1880-1915) and The Hon. Francis Gerald Agar-Robartes, later 7th Viscount Clifden (1883-1966)
Fred T. Palmer [photographer] Kingston upon Thames
Category
Photographs
Date
1899
Materials
Photographic paper
Measurements
146 mm (H)104 mm (W)
Place of origin
Kingston upon Thames
Order this imageCollection
Lanhydrock, Cornwall
NT 889248.2
Summary
Studio photograph of three children. The youngest, a toddler, the Hon. Victor Agar-Robartes, later 8th Viscount Clifden, 1887-1974, in lace dress, sitting on rug in curved wooden arm chair. The oldest boy, the Hon. Tommy Agar-Robartes, later the Hon. Captain the Hon. Tommy Agar Robartes, M.P., 1880-1915, stands beside the chair and has his arm around the toddler's waist, and to the right, sitting on a small wooden folding chair, is the Hon. Gerald Agar-Robartes, later 7th Viscount Clifden, 1883-1966. Both boys wear pale suits with short trousers, bow ties and dark stockings and shoes. Fur rug on the floor with a blurred background. c.1889 See also LAN.PH.1568.2 Contained in a mid-brown leather photograph album with gold tooled decoration on the spine and brass/gilt decorative corner pieces and clasp which can be tightened.
Provenance
A gift from the Hon. Gerald Agar-Robartes, 7th Viscount Clifden, who gave Lanhydrock to the National Trust in 1953.
Marks and inscriptions
(handwritten in pencil on reverse) 6 (and) Four more of this, making 6 / X including 2 kept.
Makers and roles
Fred T. Palmer [photographer] Kingston upon Thames, photographer