Beefsteak Club 1914
Thomas Stearn & Sons [photographers] Cambridge
Category
Photographs
Date
1914
Materials
Measurements
196 x 214 mm
Place of origin
Cambridge
Order this imageCollection
Lanhydrock, Cornwall
NT 889928.12
Summary
A photograph of six young men, members of the Beefsteak Club 1914, three standing and three sitting on chairs, in a garden with a wall behind covered in ivy and three posts with tiled roof. They all wear dark frock coats with pale waistcoats and white stocks/cravats. The young man in the centre, the Hon. Cecil Agar-Robartes, 1892 -1939, is sitting on a carved chair and on a table in front of him is a trophy in the shape of a bull's head. A carpet is in the foreground. On the opposite page of the album is written Beefsteak Club, 1914, and their names. Back row, left to right, F. Fielding Reid, R.E. de Trafford and Lord Huntington; and seated, left to right, K.S. Gladstone, the Hon. C.E. Agar Robartes, seated in arm chair with bull's head trophy on table in front of him, and G.K. Dunning. Contained in a large red and gold photograph album, inscribed C.E.A-R. 1911-1914.
Provenance
This album belonged to the Hon. Cecil Agar-Robartes, 1892-1939, who was at Magdelene College, Cambridge, 1911-1914. and was given to the National Trust in 1953 by the Hon. Gerald Agar-Robartes, later 7th Viscount Clifden, 1883-1966, who continued to live at Lanhydrock with his sisters, Everilda and Violet, until his death in 1966.
Marks and inscriptions
On opposit page (Page 20): (handwritten in white, the title decorated in red and gold) Beefsteak Club /1914 / F. Fielding Reid. R.E. de Trafford. Lord Huntington. / K.S. Gladstone. the Hon. C.E. Agar Robartes G.K. Dunning. Bottom left of photograph: (embossed) Stearn & Sons (underlined) / CAMBRIDGE.
Makers and roles
Thomas Stearn & Sons [photographers] Cambridge, manufacturer