Venezia Ortica
Category
Photographs
Date
1900
Materials
Photographic paper
Measurements
91 mm (H)117 mm (W)
Place of origin
Bodmin
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Lanhydrock, Cornwall
NT 889257.23
Summary
Photograph of a woman, Mlle. Venezia Ortica, governess, sitting on the steps outside a door of Lanhydrock. She is wearing a blouse with mutton-chop sleeves and a plain skirt with belt, a staw hat with feathers and flowers and has a watch pinned to her blouse. She holds a book in her left hand and an umbrella/parasol in her right. c.1900 Contained in a photograph album with front and back covers in tan fabric, the spine and corners of dark brown leatherette with gold tooling.
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.