(1853-1920, Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna of Russia, wife of Alfred Duke of Edinburgh, daughter of Alexander II, Tsar of Russia) with her son ALFRED (1874-1899, Duke of Edinburgh, eldest grandson of Tsar Alexander II, committed suicide, a fact that was covered up by the family)]
Unsigned cabinet photo by Hills and Saunders
showing her half length in an oval, with her infant son on her lap wearing a lacy dress, 6½ x 4½, no place, no date, circa
Hills & Saunders was one of the leading Victorian photographic firms, started as a partnership between Robert Hills & John Henry Saunders. They were social photographers with studios at different times in London, Harrow & Eton & Rugby, Oxford & Cambridge and Aldershot & Sandhurst. They were successful photographers to the royal family.