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George Watmough Webster (1842 - 1919)
Category
Photographs
Date
1875 (circa)
Materials
Measurements
104 x 63 mm
Place of origin
Chester
Order this imageCollection
Lanhydrock, Cornwall
NT 890102.62
Summary
A studio photograph, head and shoulders, of a man with wavy hair, moustache and sideburns. He is wearing a dark jacket with piping on revers, a high waistcoat with top button just showing, and a white collar and bow tie? See also 890102.68. 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) G. Watmough Webster. Chester. On reverse: printed within rectangle at angle) Mr. G. Watmough Webster. / Photographer & Miniature Painter. / 19, Bridge St. Row, / Chester.
Makers and roles
George Watmough Webster (1842 - 1919), manufacturer