Royalty
[UMBERTO I
(1844-1900, from 1878 King of Italy) and his wife and cousin MARGHERITA (!851-1926, Daughter of the 1st Duke of Genoa)]
Fine pair of unsigned Albumen cabinet photos by Fill d'Alessandra of Rome & Giacomo Brogi, Florence,
showing them three quarters length, he is in uniform and she is in a court dress, 6½ x 4¼, no place, no date,
£175
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Background
Fratelli D'Alessandri, were two Italian photographers, active in the 1870s-1880s, were contemporaries of the Alinari, who were active mainly in Rome. Known for the wet collodion technique, they worked mainly with clients belonging to the Roman nobility and high prelates of the Vatican. Giacomo BROGI (1822-1881) was an Italian photographer. He created his first studio in Corso Tintori, in Florence in 1864. He began travelling around Italy and later travelled to the Middle East in 1868 including Palestine, Egypt and Syria. Brogi was associated with the Photographic Society of Italy.
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