Photographs
Category
Photographs
Date
1855 (circa)
Materials
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Lanhydrock, Cornwall
NT 890166.10
Summary
A studio photograph of an elderly lady, possibly Miss Buller, wearing a very full crinoline. She is seated on a chair with her right elbow on a small table and one foot resting on a footstool. She is holding an open book. Diamond patterned paper on the wall. Contained in a very large dark brown leather photograph album with gold tooling on front, back and on spine and 'Charles Lygon-Cocks / Hys / Photographs' in gold on front cover.
Provenance
Col. Charles Lygon Somers Cocks was related to the Agar-Robartes through the Carew Pole family. He commissioned George Gilbert Scott to design his house,Treverbyn Vean, St. Neot, and William Burges to design the interiors.