Logan Rock, Cornwall
Lobb
Category
Photographs
Date
1870 (circa)
Materials
Photographic paper
Measurements
101 x 63 mm
Place of origin
Wadebridge
Order this imageCollection
Lanhydrock, Cornwall
NT 890102.44
Summary
Photograph of the Logan Rock, Treen, near Porthcurno, Cornwall, showing a large granite outcrop with a man standing on the top looking as though he is pushing an enormous boulder. 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) Logan Rock, Cornwall. / C.R. Lobb, Wadebridge.
Makers and roles
Lobb, photographer