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 his by Fill d'Alessandra of Rome
showing themhead and shoulders, he is in uniform and she is in a court dress with a tiara, 6½ x 4¼, no place, no date, circa
Item Date: 1875
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.
Stock No. 43653