Every day Sophie Dupre presents two items from her large stock of signed photographs, autograph letters, autographs for sale, royal memoralbilia and antiquarian manuscripts.
The photographs are presented with the catalogue descriptions.
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September 02
ON THIS DAY
On this day in 1878 Princess Alexandra of Edinburgh and Saxe-Coburg and Gotha was born. She was was the fourth child and third daughter of Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh and Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna of Russia. She was a granddaughter of Queen Victoria as well as of Tsar Alexander II of Russia.
In 1967 Siegfried L Sassoon died at the age of 80. He was a poet, writer, and soldier. Decorated for bravery on the Western Front, he became one of the leading poets of the First World War. His poetry both described the horrors of the trenches, and satirised the patriotic pretensions of those who, in Sassoon's view, were responsible for a jingoism-fuelled war. Sassoon became a focal point for dissent within the armed forces when he made a lone protest against the continuation of the war in his "Soldier's Declaration" of 1917.
ALEXANDRA (of Saxe-Coburg, 1878-1942, daughter of Alfred Duke of Edinburgh, wife of Ernst, 7th Prince of Hohenlohe-Langenburg, 1863-1950) and her children Prince GOTTFRIED (1897-1960), Princess MARIA MELITA (1899-1967), Princess ALEXANDRA (1901-1963) and Princess IRMA (1902-1986)
Charming oblong cabinet photograph, by E. Uhlenhuth of Coburg, signed ‘Sandra’ and dated, identified below in German in another hand, showing them head and shoulders in a row, no place, 1904
52846
SASSOON (Siegfried L., 1886-1967, Poet)
Unsigned autograph note on a postcard with a picture of Michelangelo’s “The Emtombment” on the front, commenting on “the stress and weight of the 3 central figures is beyond all words. ... Of course it was almost too easy to him. See the Sistine woman’s arm; just too thin. The vague indefinite green and brown are lovely. ... It should be awful but it isn’t. But would the colour when it was finished have been perfect? I doubt the red & the green & brown but who can tell? No - it is all right ...”, 1 side postcard, no place, no date
32989
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