Photograph
Wheeler and Day [photographers] Oxford
Category
Photographs
Date
1870 (circa)
Materials
Photographic paper
Measurements
103 x 62 mm
Place of origin
Oxford
Order this imageCollection
Lanhydrock, Cornwall
NT 890102.29
Summary
Studio photograph, head and shoulders, of a dark haired clean shaven young man, possibly Indian. He is wearing a jacket with piping on the revers, white shirt and dark tie. 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
Below photograph on mount: (printed in black) WHEELER & DAY OXFORD On reverse: (printed in black above and below photographer's mark) W.H. WHEELER / LATE / WHEELER & DAY / PHOTOGRAPHERS / 106, HIGH STREET / OXFORD / No.
Makers and roles
Wheeler and Day [photographers] Oxford, photographer