Hester Rogers, Mrs Marwood Coad
Francis R. Elwell
Category
Photographs
Date
1880 (circa)
Materials
Metal, Photographic paper
Measurements
158 mm (H)109 mm (W)205 mm (H)143 mm (W)
Place of origin
London
Order this imageCollection
Lanhydrock, Cornwall
NT 889644
Summary
Studio photograph of a young woman, Hester Coad, nee Rogers, nursemaid at Lanhydrock in the 1880's and 1890's, with hair scraped back. She wears a high necked, long sleeved, dress with stripes on bodice and skirt, and she holds a book in her right hand, while her left hand rests on carved ledge. c.1880 In free-standing white metal frame with birds and flowers in relief; fastened by spring clip at back and impressed [ ]ATENT.
Provenance
A gift from the Hon. Gerald Agar-Robartes, 7th Viscount Clifden, who gave Lanhydrock to the National Trust in 1953.
Marks and inscriptions
(printed across back of mount) The Bower (underlined)
Makers and roles
Francis R. Elwell, photographer