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TWEEDMOUTH,
LORD
Sitter: Edward Marjoribanks, 2nd Baron Tweedmouth (1849-1909).
Biog: Barrister, Liberal Chief Whip 1892-1894 and First Lord of the Admiralty 1905-1908. Role: Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester,1 Court of Queen Elizabeth. Date: 10 July 1897. Occasion: The Devonshire House Ball, 2 July 1897. Location: The Lafayette Studio, 179 New Bond Street, London, W. Descr: FL standing. Costume: "...ruby velvet and gold embroidery, slashed with satin." (The Daily Telegraph, 3 July 1897, p 10b) Costume Supplier: - Orders, Decorations & Medals: Collar of the Order of the Garter; unidentified neck badge. Jewellery: Miniature portrait of a lady, suspended from left shoulder. Furniture & Props: Painted backdrop; Jacobean-style photographer's chair with detachable crest-rail; studio Persian rug.
Evidence of photographer at work: Base of clamp visible behind sitter's legs. No of poses: 2 [this neg marked as reject, but see also neg no 1446].
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Biog: Dictionary of National Biography; Burke's Peerage; The Complete Peerage; Who's Who; The Times, 16 September 1909 p 13c. Occasion: Sophia Murphy, The Duchess of Devonshire's Ball, London, 1984. Role & Costume: (Role only) St. James's Gazette, 3 July 1897, p 9b; The Sketch, 14 July 1897, p 484b; (Costume) The Daily News, 3 July 1897, p 5g; Daily Telegraph, 3 July 1897, p 10b; The Morning Post, 3 July 1897, p 7f & 8a; The Gentlewoman, 10 July 1897, p 52c; Lady's Pictorial, 10 July 1897, p 53c; The Queen, 10 July 1897, p 76b. Costume Supplier: - Orders, Decorations & Medals: - Reproduced: (Version with Lady Tweedmouth taken on the night of the Ball) Devonshire House Fancy Dress Ball, July 2 1897: A Collection of Portraits in Costume of Some of the Guests, privately printed, 1899, p 257, (National Portrait Gallery Archives). |
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