Lucy Bridgeman

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Description

Lucy Bridgeman
Isabel, Charlotte, Leila and Johnny at Castle Bromwich, circa 1856
183 by 156mm

Albumen Print, mounted on album page with two ruled ink borders, the sitters identified in pencil and numbered in red ink, also inscribed 'Castle Bromwich' in pencil, the mount numbered '71' in pencil in a modern hand,

Provenance

Sotheby's Belgravia, 14th March 1979, lot 328. The album from which this photograph, and the photographs in the following three lots, comes had an index to sitters and a family tree ('pedigree').

Literature

See C.S. Sykes 1980, pp. 15 & 33 for other studies by Lucy Bridgeman taken at the front entrance to Castle Bromwich.

Catalogue Note

The index numbers given to the sitters are as follows: Isabel (18), Charlotte (8), Leila (19) and Johnny (9), which tells us that the sitters are all Bridgeman siblings.