Photograph
William Mayland (fl.1850s-1880) [photographer]
Category
Photographs
Date
1860 (circa)
Materials
Photographic paper
Measurements
105 x 63 mm
Place of origin
London
Order this imageCollection
Lanhydrock, Cornwall
NT 890102.56
Summary
A studio photograph, head and shoulders, of a man with receding hairline and bushy sideburns. He is wearing a dark high buttoned coat, probably clerical, with a white clerical collar. Possibly related/married to 890102.57. 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 reverse: (printedin gold/brown) PHOTOGRAPHERS TO THE QUEEN / Two medallions and Garter arms / T.R. WILLIAMS & W. MAYLAND / 236, REGENT STREET, W. / LONDON / ALL NEGATIVES HAVE BEEN AND ARE PRESERVED / FROM WHICH COPIES CAN BE OBTAINED AT ANY TIME IN BEAUTIFUL AND / IMPERISHABLE ENAMEL, / BEING ALSO PARTICULARLY ADAPTED FOR ENLARGEMENTS / MAY BE FINISHED EITHER IN / OIL OR WATER COLORS.
Makers and roles
William Mayland (fl.1850s-1880) [photographer], photographer T. R. Williams, photographer