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      THOMAS RICHARD WILLIAMS (1825-71)

      'The Princess Royal'

      21 - 21 Nov 1856

      Salted paper print | 12.0 x 10.1 cm (image) | RCIN 2917842

      Photograph of Victoria, Princess Royal, later Empress of Germany (1840-1901) taken on her 16th birthday. She is seated and faces towards the camera. She poses with her hands held together in her lap. She wears a light coloured off-the-shoulders gown, gloves, pearls and a jewelled hairpiece. Photograph taken in Windsor Castle, on the Princess's sixteenth birthday.

      • Creator(s)

        Thomas Richard Williams (1825-71) (photographer)

        Subject(s)

        Empress Friedrich, German Empress and Queen of Prussia (1840-1901)

      • 12.0 x 10.1 cm (image)

      • From an album compiled by Princess Helena

      • Object type(s)
          • visual works
            • photographs
              • cartes-de-visite
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