Group portrait of Rupert, Helen and Beatrix Potter with friends at Dalguise House in Perthshire
Photograph
ca. 1870
ca. 1870
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Rupert Potter (1832-1914), father of the children's writer and illustrator Beatrix Potter (1866-1943), took up photography in the 1860s when it was still a relatively new art form. An enthusiastic and skilled amateur, he was elected to the Photographic Society of London in 1869 and later contributed to photographic exhibitions. Rupert assisted the artist Sir John Everett Millais (1829-1896), a close friend, by photographing backgrounds for paintings and sitters for portraits. His favourite subject, however, was Beatrix herself and his prolific legacy of several hundred photographs forms a broad pictorial account of her life from infancy to marriage.
Rupert was also a skilled landscape photographer and during the Potter family's extended summer holidays to Scotland and the Lake District he photographed in particular the countryside around Eastwood in Dunkeld, Wray Castle near Ambleside and Lingholm on the edge of Derwentwater. From 1871 to 1881 the family rented Dalguise House near Dunkeld in Perthshire.
Rupert was also a skilled landscape photographer and during the Potter family's extended summer holidays to Scotland and the Lake District he photographed in particular the countryside around Eastwood in Dunkeld, Wray Castle near Ambleside and Lingholm on the edge of Derwentwater. From 1871 to 1881 the family rented Dalguise House near Dunkeld in Perthshire.
Object details
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| Title | Group portrait of Rupert, Helen and Beatrix Potter with friends at Dalguise House in Perthshire (generic title) |
| Materials and techniques | Albumen print on paper. |
| Brief description | Photograph of Rupert Potter, Beatrix Potter, and Helen Potter with friends at Dalguise House in Perthshire, ca. 1870. |
| Physical description | Group photograph taken on the front doorstep of Dalguise House. All are seated. Rupert Potter sits on the far left, then Beatrix Potter, a gentleman, a young lady and Helen Potter sits on the far right. The front door is open behind them. |
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| Production type | Unique |
| Marks and inscriptions | 'Rupert. HBP. Mr. Gaskell? Mrs G? / Mrs Potter' (Inscription in pencil on verso by Joan Duke.) |
| Credit line | Given by Joan Duke. |
| Object history | Photograph taken by Rupert Potter at Dalguise House in Perthshire, ca. 1870. Given to the Museum by Joan Duke in 1983. |
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| Summary | Rupert Potter (1832-1914), father of the children's writer and illustrator Beatrix Potter (1866-1943), took up photography in the 1860s when it was still a relatively new art form. An enthusiastic and skilled amateur, he was elected to the Photographic Society of London in 1869 and later contributed to photographic exhibitions. Rupert assisted the artist Sir John Everett Millais (1829-1896), a close friend, by photographing backgrounds for paintings and sitters for portraits. His favourite subject, however, was Beatrix herself and his prolific legacy of several hundred photographs forms a broad pictorial account of her life from infancy to marriage. Rupert was also a skilled landscape photographer and during the Potter family's extended summer holidays to Scotland and the Lake District he photographed in particular the countryside around Eastwood in Dunkeld, Wray Castle near Ambleside and Lingholm on the edge of Derwentwater. From 1871 to 1881 the family rented Dalguise House near Dunkeld in Perthshire. |
| Other number | AAD/1983/14/4 - V&A Archive number |
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| Accession number | AR.14:4-1983 |
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| Record created | October 3, 2012 |
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