Lot 82

ELLIOT & FRY, MAULL & CO., W. & D. DOWNEY, ALEXANDER BASSANO, JABEZ HUGHES, HILLS & SAUNDERS, LONDON STEREOSCOPIC CO. and others

Royal Portrait albums relating to Prince Henry of Battenberg, 1860s and later

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ELLIOT & FRY, MAULL & CO., W. & D. DOWNEY, ALEXANDER BASSANO, JABEZ HUGHES, HILLS & SAUNDERS, LONDON STEREOSCOPIC CO. and others
Royal Portrait albums relating to Prince Henry of Battenberg, 1860s and later
Two albums containing a total of 135 cartes-de-visite, thirty-one cabinet cards including four oversized and fourteen photographs, sizes to 9 x 6 in. or the reverse, various processes, five autographed and a few dated in ink on recto, the majority with photographers' printed credits on mounts and loosely inserted in pre-cut window mounts, identified in pencil on mounts, blue morocco and blue calf, the latter with painted decoration depicting a bird and flowers, each with gilt stamp B surmounted by a crown on front cover, g.e., gilt clasps, 4to. (2)

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An autographed portrait of Marie, Duchess of Edinburgh (ne Feodorovna, daughter of Tsar Alexander II of Russia) is included in one album.

Lot Essay

Sitters include: Prince and Princess of Wales, Princesses Louisa, Victoria and Maude of Wales; Alfred, Princess Charlotte (signed) and Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh (each illus.); Princesses Victoria and Elizabeth of Hesse, Emperor and Empress of Russia and Brazil, Queen Margharita of Italy, Olga, Queen of Greece (signed) and King of Greece, Empress Eugenie, Duke of Connaught; Frederick William, Crown Prince of Germany, Prince Henry of Battenberg, Duke and Duchess and Princess Alice of Albany, Prince Edward of Saxe Weimar; Carlos, Prince of Portugal (signed), Princess Victoria of Russia, Princesses Sophie and Margaret of Prussia and Queen Victoria holding Prince Alexander of Battenberg.

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