Photograph
Edward Banes
Category
Photographs
Date
1860 (circa)
Materials
Photographic paper
Measurements
105 x 63 mm
Place of origin
Brompton
Order this imageCollection
Lanhydrock, Cornwall
NT 890102.54
Summary
A studio photograph, head and shoulders, of a man with thick wavy hair, and bushy sideburns. He is wearing a dark jacket with high buttoned waistcoat, a white stand-up collar and white tie. 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 gold) EDWARD BANES BROMPTON. On reverse: (printed above and below photographer's mark) PATRONIZED BY THE ARMY & NAVY / EDWARD BANES, / Practical Chemist / AND / Photographist. / 3, High Street, / BROPTON / KENT. / COPIES CAN ALWAYS BE HAD BY PERMISSION. / Works of art copied enlarged or diminished to any size
Makers and roles
Edward Banes, photographer