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Identification and Creation

Object Number
P1982.359.31
People
Mary Georgiana Caroline Cecil Filmer, British (1838-1903)
Title
Untitled (five photographs, clockwise from upper left, Sir Archibald Hope; Lady Hope; Lady Edwin Hill; Mrs. Goff; center, Viscountess Holmesdale)
Classification
Photographs
Work Type
photograph, album page
Date
1862-1888
Places
Creation Place: Europe, United Kingdom
Culture
British
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/317507

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Album page with five carte de visite albumen silver prints, two photographs are bordered with red and silver metallic paint.
Technique
Albumen silver print
Dimensions
28.9 x 23.2 cm (11 3/8 x 9 1/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: Sitter's names are inscribed beneath photographs.

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Seiden & de Cuevas, Inc., New York, NY, purchased from Christie's, 1978, Gift to the Fogg Art Museum, 1982. On Long Term Loan to the Fogg Art Museum from 1978 to 1982

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Purchase through the generosity of Melvin R. Seiden
Object Number
P1982.359.31
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
Sitter information:

Sir Archibald Hope (28 February 1808-24 January 1883). 12th Baronet, Lt. Col. Midlothian Militia. DL Edinburgh. Married Aldena (d. 20 October 1908) daughter of Henry Kingscote, 17 July 1862.

Lady Hope

Lady Edwin Hill

Mrs. Goff

Viscountess Holmesdale, born Lady Julia Mann (2 July 1844-1 September 1883), name changed to Cornwallis 22 October 1844. Only surviving child of the 5th and last Earl Cornwallis. Married 27 August 1862 to William Archer Amherst, Viscount Holmesdale (1836-1910). The Viscountess is buried at Linton.


The center photograph and photograph in the lower right corner of the page are bordered in red and silver metallic paint. The other photographs are frame with graphite lines which may indicate that they too were to be similarly bordered.

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