Photograph
Ch. Reutlinger [photographer] Paris
Category
Photographs
Date
1870 (circa)
Materials
Photographic paper
Measurements
104 x 62 mm
Place of origin
Paris
Order this imageCollection
Lanhydrock, Cornwall
NT 890102.43
Summary
Studio photograph, head and shoulders, of a clean shaven man with wavy hair. He wears a coat with darker velvet collar, wing collar and dark bow at neck. 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) CH. REUTLINGER PHOTOG. On reverse: (printed below photographer's mark) PREMIER PRIX / Exposition Universelle 1867 / CH.REUTLINGER / PHOTOGRAPHE / 21, Boulevard Montmartre,21 / PARIS.
Makers and roles
Ch. Reutlinger [photographer] Paris, photographer