Carey Dickinson
Hills and Saunders Limited [photographers]
Category
Photographs
Date
1870 (circa)
Materials
Measurements
103 x 62 mm
Place of origin
Oxford
Order this imageCollection
Lanhydrock, Cornwall
NT 890102.3
Summary
A studio photograph, head and shoulders, of a young man, Carey Dickinson, with slight moustache and wearing a dark jacket with piped revers, wing collar and dark tie. See also 890102.64. 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) HILLS & SAUNDERS OXFORD & CAMBRIDGE / ALSO AT ETON HARROW & LONDON On reverse: (printed below Royal coat of arms) BY APPOINTMENT / TO / HER MAJESTY / HILLS & SAUNDERS / OXFORD & CAMBRIDGE / ALSO AT ETON HARROW & LONDON / All communications respecting this / Photograph to be addressed to / OXFORD
Makers and roles
Hills and Saunders Limited [photographers] , manufacturer