Philippa Mary Dickinson (1848-1887)
Russell and Sons [photographers] Southsea
Category
Photographs
Date
1870 (circa)
Materials
Photographic paper
Measurements
105 x 62 mm
Place of origin
Chichester
Order this imageCollection
Lanhydrock, Cornwall
NT 890102.23
Summary
Studio photograph of a young woman, Philippa Mary Dickinson (1848-1887), elder sister of Mary Dickinson, standing beside a desk, as stool just visible behind her. She wears a dress with full skirt and small train, with belt at waist and dark buttons down the bodice. Around her neck is a dark velvet ribbon and cameo brooch. Plain background and patterned carpet. 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) J. RUSSELL & SONS. PHOTOS. CHICHESTER. On rverse: (printed in brown around photographers' marks) HONORABLE MENTION / INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION, 1862. / J. RUSSELL & SONS / Photographers / East Street, / CHICHESTER. / LIFE SIZE PORTRAIT GALLERY / PICTURE FRAME MANUFACTORY / Copies can alway be had.
Makers and roles
Russell and Sons [photographers] Southsea, photographer