[Photoprints of Garnett residence Hilton Hall].
Set of photoprints in envelope with ms title mainly taken of the exterior and interior of Hilton Hall. Many images are of a same subject but from different angles. Some with ms captions on verso. The page numbering on the captions are page references in 'Go she must' by David Garnett (Lond...
| Format: | Photo |
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| Language: | English |
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| Summary: | Set of photoprints in envelope with ms title mainly taken of the exterior and interior of Hilton Hall. Many images are of a same subject but from different angles. Some with ms captions on verso. The page numbering on the captions are page references in 'Go she must' by David Garnett (London : Chatto & Windus, 1927). Photographer not identified. |
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| Item Description: | Hilton Hall is an early 17th century English country house in the village of Hilton in Cambridgeshire. In 1924 it was acquired by the writer David Garnett, and he lived there until the 1960s, initially with his first wife, Rachel (Ray) Marshall (1891-1940), and later with his second wife, Angelica Garnett, daughter of Duncan Grant and Vanessa Bell. In 2001 the house was still lived in by Richard Garnett, son of the writer, and his wife. In the grounds is a turf maze with a square stone obelisk, Sparrow's Monument (listed grade II), erected in 1729 which marks the death of William Sparrow who cut the maze in 1660 when he was nineteen. Nearby is the town of St. Ives. Photoprints in addition to labelled: 1 x St Ives bridge -- 15 x exterior Hilton Hall -- 9 x paintings of Garnett family [?], taken inside Hilton Hall -- 4 x busts of Bloomsbury Group, taken inside Hilton Hall [Lytton Strachey by Stephen Tomlin, Vanessa Bell by Marcel Gimond, Virginia Woolf by Stephen Tomlin, Duncan Grant by Stephen Tomlin] -- 7 x envelope suggests is a 2nd edition of picture book for children 'Archibald' [various open pages of a ms with colored illustrations]. |
| Physical Description: | 1 envelope (45 photoprints) : color ; each 9 x 13 cm, envelope 11 x 16 cm |