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Category
Photographs
Date
1880 (circa)
Materials
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Lanhydrock, Cornwall
NT 890099
Summary
A faded black leather bound album, embossed in diamond pattern with gold tooling. Spine badly damaged and largely missing. Brass clasp with keyhole, but key missing. Containing twenty three double pages, with various sized and shaped mounts. Some pages decorated with flora and fauna. c. 1880
Provenance
A gift from the Hon. Gerald Agar Robartes, 7th Viscount Clifden, 1883-1966, who gave Lanhydrock to the National Trust in 1953 and continued to live there with his sisters, Everilda and Violet, until his death in 1966. The album is thought to have belonged to Mary Dickinson, later Viscountess Clifden, containing family photographs.