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MAXWELL,
HON. A.K
Neg. No: 2213B
Neg. Size: 15"x12"
Neg. Date: 02-12-1899
Sitter:
Arthur Kenlis Maxwell, 11th Baron Farnham (1879-1957).
Biog:
Lieutenant, 10th Hussars; Irish Representative Peer since 1908; Lieutenant-Colonel,
North Irish Horse.
Date:
2 December 1899.
Occasion:
-
Location:
The Lafayette Studio, 179 New Bond Street, London.
Descr:
FL standing.
Costume:
Levée Dress, 2nd Lieutenant, 10th (Prince of Wales's Own Royal) Hussars.
- Black sable fur busby with
a gold gimp oval cockade in the centre in front. The ostrich feather
- no more than 15" high from the top of the busy and held by a
vulture feather bottom in a corded gilt ball socket with four upright
leaves.
- The tunic of blue cloth.
On each side of the breast six loops of gold chain gimp, with caps and
ropes fastening with gold-worked olivets and an Austrian knot of gold
chain gimp on each sleeve.
- Shoulder belt of black
patent leather, with metal chain ornament.
- Levée Dress pantaloons
- scarlet with a gold chain gimp down the outside seams.
- Hessian boots, edged round
the top with gold gimp lace terminating in an oval boss in front. Straight
spurs with dummy rowels, silver plated. Cavalry pattern sword in a steel
scabbard.
Furniture
& Props: Painted backdrop.
Photographer:
Lafayette Ltd., 179 New Bond Street, London.
Evidence
of photographer at work:
No
of poses: 2.
see also:
Copyright:
V&A
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including the URL of the relevant page Provenance: Pinewood Studios; acquired 1989.
References:
Biog:
Burkes' Peerage; Who's Who; The Army List,
1899; The Times, 6 Febuary 1957, p 11c.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ Arthur_Maxwell,_11th_Baron_Farnham
Occasion:
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Costume:
Dress Regulations for the Army, London, 1900.
Reproduced:
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Additional
Information: -
Acknowledgements:
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