VARIOUS PHOTOGRAPHERS

Empress Maria Feodorovna of Russia, 1884 and circa 1909

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VARIOUS PHOTOGRAPHERS
Empress Maria Feodorovna of Russia, 1884 and circa 1909
Two albumen prints approx. 7 x 5 in. and 5 x 3¾ in., gilt-edged wooden mounts, one inscribed in ink The Gift of the Empress of Russia 1884, each in ebonised wood frame, the second with ink manuscript label on verso inscribed This photograph was given to me by H.I.M. the Empress of Russia, sister of the Princess of Wales, at Peterhoff in 1884 George Higgin[son]; one platinum print 11.1/8 x 7 in., mounted on card, signed by sitters Maria and Alexandra on mount, framed; with another framed portrait. (4)

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Three portraits of the Empress, one alone, one with three of her children, Tsarevitch Nicholas Alexandrovitch (later Tsar Nicholas II), Grand Duchess Xenia Alexandrovna and Grand Duke George Alexandrovitch (illus.), and one with her sister Queen Alexandra. The fourth portrait is titled Agnes Barbara Johnston on verso.