Photograph
R. Slingsby [photographer] Lincoln
Category
Photographs
Date
1871 (circa)
Materials
Photographic paper
Measurements
103 x 62 mm
Place of origin
Lincoln
Order this imageCollection
Lanhydrock, Cornwall
NT 890102.21
Summary
A studio photograph of a man with hair short combed close to scalp, a moustache and slight sideburns. He wears a jacket and waistcoat of clerical style with white dog collar, the jacket done up with top button. 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 in brown) R. SLINGSBY LINCOLN On reverse: (printed in brown) PATRONIZED BY (Prince of Wales feathers) HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS / THE PRINCE OF WALES./ (photographers mark) / R. SLINGSBY / PHOTOGRAPHER / 168, HIGH STREET / LINCOLN
Makers and roles
R. Slingsby [photographer] Lincoln, photographer