A group of six young men outside the [Royal] Sportsman Hotel, Portmadoc
G. W. Holden [photographer] Portmadoc
Category
Photographs
Date
1870 (circa)
Materials
Photographic paper
Measurements
63 x 104 mm
Place of origin
Porthmadog
Order this imageCollection
Lanhydrock, Cornwall
NT 890102.75
Summary
Professional photograph of a group of six young men outside the [Royal] Sportsman Hotel, Portmadoc, all sitting astride donkeys with the owner possibly on the far left. None of the donkeys have saddles and some have blinkers. The men all wear hats or caps, four in jackets, two with waistcoats. A group of men and women sit and stand on the hotel steps behind. 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
Marks and inscriptions
On mount to right of 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