Photograph
R. Slingsby [photographer] Lincoln
Category
Photographs
Date
1860 (circa)
Materials
Photographic paper
Measurements
103 x 62 mm
Place of origin
Lincoln
Order this imageCollection
Lanhydrock, Cornwall
NT 890102.51
Summary
A studio photograph, head and shoulders, of a man with moustache and beard, his hair with a centre parting. He wears a jacket with piping on the refers and a tie of the same shade with tie pin. 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 brown) R. SLINGSBY LINCOLN. On reverse: (printed in brown with the Prince of Wales feathers above photographer's mark) PATRONIZED BY HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS / THE PRINCE OF WALES / R. SLINGSBY / PHOTOGRAPHER / 168, HIGH STREET / LINCOLN
Makers and roles
R. Slingsby [photographer] Lincoln, photographer