Photograph
G. & R. Lavis
Category
Photographs
Date
1870 (circa)
Materials
Photographic paper
Measurements
105 x 63 mm
Place of origin
Eastbourne
Order this imageCollection
Lanhydrock, Cornwall
NT 890102.32
Summary
Studio photograph of a boy sitting on a chair, his left leg resting on his right knee, his left elbow resting on a circular pedestal table, an open book in his lap. He wears a dark three-piece suit with white collar and tie. Plain background, patterned carpet and a curtain just visible on the right of the photograph. 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 mauve) G. & R. LAVIS, PHOTO. On reverse: (printed in mauve under makers mark) G & R Lavis / PHOTOGRAPHERS & / MINIATURE PAINTERS / 135, REGENT ST. / W. AND AT / 71, TERMINUS ROAD. / EASTBOURNE. / No.
Makers and roles
G. & R. Lavis, photographer