Long Gallery, Lanhydrock, Cornwall
Category
Photographs
Date
1855 (circa)
Materials
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Lanhydrock, Cornwall
NT 890166.28
Summary
A photograph of the Long Gallery at Lanhydrock taken from the stairs from the Drawing Room. The floor is carpeted and there is furniture, pictures and bookcases around the walls, with three tables down the centre of the room. 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.