Royalty
[VICTORIA
(1840-1901, Empress Frederick of Germany, wife of Frederick III, eldest child of Queen Victoria & mother of Kaiser Wilhelm II)]
Delightful unsigned Carte-de-visite Portrait Photograph, by Hills & Saunders,
showing her seated nearly full length in profile, head turned to three quarter face, in a fine dark dress, the top edged with ruched ribbon, the velvet overskirt with a strong repeating appliqué pattern topped with a lacelike design, she is holding a book nearly upright in her lap, on the verso are two portions of the label of Orr & Barton of Bangalore over the photographer's display, 4¼ x 2½, no place, no date, circa
Item Date: 1865
£135
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Background
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.
Stock No. 54437
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