Royalty
[HELENA
(Augusta Victoria, 1846-1923, wife, 1866, of Prince Christian of Schleswig-Holstein, Princess, 3rd Daughter of Queen Victoria, founder of the Princess Christian Nursing Home)]
Unsigned Carte-de-visite Portrait Photograph by Hills & Saunders
of Eton & Oxford, showing her standing full length, full face, her hands lightly clasped, in an attractively embroidered crinoline skirt, and a small round hat with a white plume, 3½ x 2½, no place, dated within the image 27th April
Item Date: 1864
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. 54828