The Reverend James Lyde Hunt
Frederick Argall (1847 - 1900)
Category
Photographs
Date
1860 (circa)
Materials
Photographic paper
Measurements
166 x 109 mm
Place of origin
Truro
Order this imageCollection
Lanhydrock, Cornwall
NT 890102.59
Summary
A studio photograph of a man with centre parting and moustache sitting in carved chair his right arm resting on chair arm, his left hand on his right knee which is crossed over his left. He is wearing a dark suit with long jacket and dark tie with pin. On the left in a full length curtain and on the right an ornate table is partially visible. 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
Below photograph: (handwritten in ink) The Rev. J. Lyde Hunt Below photograph: (printed in brown) Cabinet Portrait / FREDERICK ARGALL TRURO On reverse: (printed in brown simulating branches) Frederick / Argall / HIGH CROSS / TRURO / AN ENLARGEMENT CAN BE MADE / THE NEGATIVE BEING KEPT. / COPIES MAY BE HAD.
Makers and roles
Frederick Argall (1847 - 1900), photographer