Photograph
G. W. Holden [photographer] Portmadoc
Category
Photographs
Date
1870 (circa)
Materials
Photographic paper
Measurements
104 x 63 mm
Place of origin
Porthmadog
Order this imageCollection
Lanhydrock, Cornwall
NT 890102.74
Summary
Professional photograph of two similar men in front of a stone block wall, one holding a large wooden wheelbarrow, the other sitting in it and facing him. Both wear pale suits and trilby-style hats. 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. June 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 gold) G.W.HOLDEN. PORTMADOC. On reverse: (printed in mauve on ribbon) GEO.W.HOLDEN. / ARTIST. / PORTMADOC. (printed in mauve beneath) C.D.Vs. ENLARGED TO LIFE SIZE. / COPIES CAN BE HAD AT ANY TIME BY SENDING / NAME OR NUMBER. / No.
Makers and roles
G. W. Holden [photographer] Portmadoc, photographer