Alice Marcon

Career Artist / Photographer / Antiquarian / Historian

Biography A photographer and only daughter of Sir Henry Dryden, a noted historian. She sought to revive lace-making in Northamptonshire [Alison Petch [as part of 'The Other Within' project 2006-9] 12/02/2007]

Biography References http://216.239.59.104/search?q=cache:-28tSmByfk0J:accessibility.english-heritage.org.uk/Filestore/nmr/pdf/catalogue/alice_marcon.pdf+alice+marcon&hl=en / http://www.northamptonshire.gov.uk/Living+and+Working/Record+Office/FamcollD.htm / http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/60772/59941

County London [Greater]

Relationship Field Collector / Other Owner / PRM Source

Archaeological or Ethnographic Ethnography

Collected around 1955

Dates active 1866-1956

Donated around 1955

English collections Brass and glass folding lantern, horn and wood ink vessel, wooden mosaic pen-rack and paper-weight with inlaid decoration of two mice, blue silk printed kerchief, straw-work mats, needle-books, bodkins and needles, emery bag, pincushions, samplers, patterns, doll, curlers, egg-cup, hair pin

Oxford Uni Education No

Oxford based Yes

Date in Oxford Unknown

English collection size 42

Connections Margaret F. Irvine / Henry Edward Leigh Dryden / John Marcon / Chapman's