Piper
Byrne and Co [photographers] Richmond
Category
Photographs
Date
1875 (circa)
Materials
Measurements
103 x 62 mm
Place of origin
Richmond
Order this imageCollection
Lanhydrock, Cornwall
NT 890102.67
Summary
A studio photograph, head and shoulders, of a man with thick hair, moustache and sideburns. He is wearing an open necked white shirt. 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
On mount below photographs: (printed in black) BYRNE & CO. RICHMOND On reverse: (handwritten in pencil) Piper On reverse: (printed below Royal coat of arms) BYRNE & CO., / PHOTOGRAPHRS TO HER MAJESTY / Hill Street / RICHMOND
Makers and roles
Byrne and Co [photographers] Richmond , manufacturer