Royalty
UNUSUAL PHOTO OF PRINCESS ALICE IN COURT DRESS
[ALICE
(Maud Mary, 1843-1878, Princess, Daughter of Queen Victoria, wife of Ludwig IV, Grand Duke of Hesse & mother of Alexandra Feodorovna Empress of Russia)]
Unsigned carte de visite photo by Mayall,
showing her full length wearing court dress with a crown and train, with her hands folded, 4 x 2½, no place, no date,
£175
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Background
Photos of Alice are rare due to her tragic early death from diptheria, caught while nursing her husband and children. John Jabez Edwin Paisley MAYALL (1813 -1901) was an English photographer who in 1860 took the first carte-de-visite photographs of Queen Victoria.
Stock No. 40683
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