Royalty
[VICTORIA
(1840-1901, Empress Frederick of Germany, wife of Friedrich III, eldest child of Queen Victoria & mother of Kaiser Wilhelm II)] and her daughter SOPHIE (Dorothea Ulrike Alice, 1870-1932, Princess of Prussia, wife of King Constantine I of Greece)]
Unsigned Carte-de-visite Portrait Photograph, by Hills & Saunders,
showing the Crown Princess three quarter length, three quarter face, in a dress with a richly embroidered hem, leaning over with a smile forming towards the right of the image to hold Princess Sophie, who is perched full length, nearly full face, on a stool on a studio table, in a white dress and a hair ribbon, her left arm round her mother's neck, between them they are holding a book on Sophie's lap, 4¼ x 2½, no place, no date, circa
Item Date: 1872
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. 54897