Photograph
Netterville Briggs (1835 - 1918)
Category
Photographs
Date
1870
Materials
Photographic paper
Measurements
91 mm (H)60 mm (W)
Place of origin
Royal Leamington Spa
Order this imageCollection
Lanhydrock, Cornwall
NT 889256.1
Summary
Head and shoulders photograph of a young man wearing jacket and waistcoat with pale shirt and tie. c.1870 Contained in a photograph album with front cover in leather embossed with diamond design in black with gold decoration, brass bound edges with knob for clip; the spine and back cover are missing.
Provenance
From photographs identified this album belonged to a member of the family and was a gift of the Hon. Gerald Agar-Robartes, 7th Viscount Clifden, who gave Lanhydrock to the National Trust in 1953.
Marks and inscriptions
(printed on reverse) NETTERVILLE BRIGGS,/16, UPPER PARADE,/LEAMINGTON. (and) MR. BRIGGS,/HAS BEEN AWARDED/SIX MEDALS/FOR/Artistic Portraiture. (and) No. / ALL NEGATIVES KEPT IN STOCK, INCLUDING THOSE OF MR. H.P. ROBINSON.
Makers and roles
Netterville Briggs (1835 - 1918), photographer