VARIOUS PHOTOGRAPHERS including W. & D. DOWNEY, MARSH BROS., BERTRAM PARK, OLIVE EDIS, RESINES, MARCUS ADAMS and E.O. HOPPE

Personal albums relating to Princess Beatrice and her husband Prince Henry of Battenberg, circa 1891-circa 1920s

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VARIOUS PHOTOGRAPHERS including W. & D. DOWNEY, MARSH BROS., BERTRAM PARK, OLIVE EDIS, RESINES, MARCUS ADAMS and E.O. HOPPE
Personal albums relating to Princess Beatrice and her husband Prince Henry of Battenberg, circa 1891-circa 1920s
Three albums: the first containing forty-two photographs: albumen, platinum and gelatin silver prints and one carbon print, sizes from 4 x 3 in. to 10 x 8.3/8 in. or the reverse, one signed Marsh Bros. Henley-on-Thames on recto, variously mounted, the majority titled and dated in ink on mounts, maroon morocco, ruled in gilt, g.e, oblong 4to.; the other two containing a total of more than 700 amateur photographs, gelatin silver prints and p.o.p. prints, the majority snapshot-size or smaller, variously mounted, one album with titles and inscriptions in ink on mounts, half brown morocco and red cloth boards, the former with g.e., olbong 4to, the latter folio; with a quantity of gelatin silver print studio portraits, various sizes, several signed and a few dated in ink on recto, mounted on card, several signed and one with photographer's blindstamp Olive Edis on mount, in two black folders, stamped Bertram Park London in gilt on front covers, folio.

Lot Essay

The first album comprises mainly portraits of Prince Henry of Baattenberg at Mar Lodge and Osborne; also including a rare portrait of Prince Henry with a mahogany Tailboard camera on studio stand (illus.), theatrical studies, a group portrait at Balmoral with Queen Victori and a large group from a series taken at Coburg in 1894 by Uhlenhuth at the time of the wedding of the Grand Duke of Hesse and Princess Victoria Melita of Edinburgh and Saxe-Coburg Gotha. It was on this occasion that Tsarevitch Nicholas became engaged to the bridegroom's sister, Princess Alix of Hesse (both are included in the photograph). At least four versions of this group are in the collection of the Royal Archive at Windsor Castle.

The two amateur albums are annotated in a hand which is most likely that of Queen Victoria Eugenia of Spain, Princess Beatrice's daughter and Princess Victoria Eugnie of Battenberg before her marriage in 1906 to King Alfonso XIII. They contain portraits and views around Rosenau, Schnberg, Osborne Cottage, London, Farborough, Bagnoles-de-l'Orme and Southampton; and several images from a trip to Egypt December 1903-April 1904. Other members of the family included in the photographs are her brothers Dino, Prince Alexander of Battenberg (later Marquess of Carisbrooke), Leo, Prince Leopold of Battenberg (Lord Leopold Mountbatten) and Bumpy (Prince Maurice of Battenberg) who was killed in action during WWI; Marie, Duchess of Edinburgh and Saxe-Coburg-Gotha (widow of Princess Beatrice's brother, Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh and Saxe-Coburg-Gotha) and three of her daughters; and Prince and Princess Franz Josef of Battenberg among others.

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