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 seated three quarter length, three quarter face, hands clasped, in a dark satin dress with crinoline skirt, and wearing a small crucifix, 3½ x 2½, no place, no date, circa
Item Date: 1865
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.
bottom edge neatly trimmed, removing photographer's names on recto
Stock No. 54829