Charles Lygon Cocks / Hys / Photographs.
Lieutenant Colonel Charles Lygon Somers Cocks (1821 - 1885)
Category
Photographs
Date
1855 (circa)
Materials
Measurements
540 mm (Height) x 70 mm (Depth); 640 mm (Length)
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Lanhydrock, Cornwall
NT 890166.466
Summary
A very large dark brown leather photograph album with photographs taken by Lieutenant Colonel Charles Lygon Somers Cocks (1821-85) with gold tooling on front, back and on spine and 'Charles Lygon-Cocks / Hys / Photographs' in gold on front cover. Inside the front cover is glued a book plate with crest and 'Treverbyn Vean' which is where he lived. Printed inside front fly-leaf on bottom edge [L]ayday & Mansell. The album has ninety pages (one hundred and eighty four sides) and contains four hundred and sixty two photographs with three loose photographs (now in Box 28 in the Photo Store).
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.
Marks and inscriptions
On front cover: (in gold) Charles Lygon Cocks / His / Photographs. Inside front cover, top left: (printed on label) crest of stag with shield / CLC / Treverbyn Vean
Makers and roles
Lieutenant Colonel Charles Lygon Somers Cocks (1821 - 1885), manufacturer