Photograph
Frederick Argall (1847 - 1900)
Category
Photographs
Date
1860 (circa)
Materials
Photographic paper
Measurements
166 x 110 mm
Place of origin
Truro
Order this imageCollection
Lanhydrock, Cornwall
NT 890102.60
Summary
A studio photograph, half length, of a man with spectacles and receding hairline, moustache and greying beard, wearing vestments over white surplice. Plain background. 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: (printed in brown) FREDERICK ARGALL TRURO On reverse: (printed in brown simulating branches) Frederick / Argall / (on ribbon) ARTIST AND LANDSCAPE PHOTOGRAPHER / HIGH CROSS / TRURO / AN ENLARGEMENT CAN BE MADE / THE NEGATIVE BEING KEPT. / COPIES MAY BE HAD.
Makers and roles
Frederick Argall (1847 - 1900), photographer