Photograph
Hills and Saunders Limited [photographers]
Category
Photographs
Date
1860 (circa)
Materials
Photographic paper
Measurements
105 x 63 mm
Place of origin
Oxford
Order this imageCollection
Lanhydrock, Cornwall
NT 890102.46
Summary
A studio photograph of a group of nine young men, standing and sitting in front of a studio rural arbour decorated with leaves. 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 in black) HILLS & SAUNDERS OXFORD & CAMBRIDGE. / ALSO AT ETON. HARROW & LONDON On reverse: printed in black with decoration) 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] , photographer