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Prince Albert was an early adopter of portrait photography

    HUGHES & MULLINS (1883-1917)

    Carbon print | 8.3 x 5.4 cm (image) | RCIN 2911182

    Photograph of a full length portrait of Anne Sutherland-Levenson-Gower, Duchess of Sutherland, when Marchioness of Stafford, standing, facing three-quarters to the left. She poses beside a stand or pedestal, on which she rests her right arm.

    • Creator(s)

      Hughes & Mullins (1883-1917) (photographer)

      Subject(s)

      Anne Sutherland-Levenson-Gower, Duchess of Sutherland (1829-88)

    • 8.3 x 5.4 cm (image)

      9.6 x 6.3 cm (mount)

      23.0 x 18.0 cm (page dimensions)

    • Marchioness of Stafford. [Photographs, English Portraits. Volume 68.]

    • Acquired by Prince Albert

    • Object type(s)
        • visual works
          • photographs
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