Capt Viscount Mahon
photograph, photograph
Accession Number
NAM.2017-09-7-58-50
Description
Studio portrait photograph of Capt Arthur Philip Stanhope, Viscount Mahon, 2nd Battalion Grenadier Guards, 1862. He stands holding his gloves and cane and leaning against a piece of furniture upon which his forage cap sits. He is wearing undress uniform featuring a long dark blue braided frock coat with sash. Viscount Mahon was an Instructor of Musketry with the battalion from the 13th April 1863 to the 10th March 1868. From an album of 110 photographs in the Grenadier Guards Photograph Archive entitled: ‘2nd Battalion Grenadier Guards’, covering the period 1858-1880 (c). Mainly officers portraits. Possibly compiled by Viscount Hinchingbrook.
