Photograph
Marcus Guttenberg (1828 - 1891)
Category
Photographs
Date
1871
Materials
Photographic paper
Measurements
100 x 62 mm
Place of origin
Bristol
Order this imageCollection
Lanhydrock, Cornwall
NT 890102.17
Summary
An oval studio photograph, raised and slightly padded, of a young man in plain jacket with piping on the revers, a large tie and part of his shirt visible. He has an eye glass on a long chain around his neck. Contained in a tan coloured leather photograph album, elaborately tooled in black with brass clasp and containing twenty five gilt edged pages with eighty photographs, some of the Dickinson family. c. 1870
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.
Marks and inscriptions
On mount below photograph: (printed) M. GUTTENBERG PGHOTO. BRISTOL. On reverse: (printed in brown: Artist and / PHOTOGRAPHER / (diagonally across page) M. Guttenberg / CLIFTON / BRISTOL / 17, Royal Promenade. / COpies may be had at any time.
Makers and roles
Marcus Guttenberg (1828 - 1891), photographer