Photograph
A. S. Hodges (photographer) Glastonbury
Category
Photographs
Date
c. 1870
Materials
Photographic paper
Measurements
105 x 63 mm
Place of origin
Glastonbury
Order this imageCollection
Lanhydrock, Cornwall
NT 890102.34
Summary
Studio photograph of a man and two boys. The man who had a moustache and sideburns, is sitting on a chair a pipe in his mouth. He wears a loose jacket over pale trousers and sits with his legs crossed a pale bowler hat on his knee. The younger of the two boys stands on the right of the photograph partially hidden by the man and chair, holding a cap in his right hand. He wears a jacket and trousers. The elder boy on the right, stands with his hands on his hips and wears a pale cap, pale trousers and dark jacket and waistcoat. He has a watch chain on the left of his waistcoat. Plain bakcground and patterned piece of carpet on the floor. 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 reverse: (printed below photographer's mark) A.S.HODGES / Photographer / GLASTONBURY
Makers and roles
A. S. Hodges (photographer) Glastonbury, photographer