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Prince Albert was an early adopter of portrait photography

    UNKNOWN PERSON

    Ladies and Gentlemen in Waiting to Prince and Princess Frederick William of Prussia

    1859

    Salted paper print | 18.3 x 24.2 cm (image) | RCIN 2906772

    Photograph of a group portrait taken in Berlin. The portrait features, from left to right, Captain von Schweinitz, Captain Van Loos, Count Perponcher, Countess Walburga (Wally) of Hohenthal, Major von Obernitz, Baron Ernst Stockmar, Countess Perponcher and Countess Marie Lynar.

    • Creator(s)

      Unknown Person (photographer)

      Subject(s)

      Countess Perponcher-Sedlintsky
      Walburga Ehrengarde Helena Paget (1839-1929)
      Baron Ernest Stockmar (1823-86)
      Countess Marie zu Lynar
      General Hans Lothar von Schweinitz
      Captain Van Loos
      Major von Obernitz (active 1859)
      Count Perponcher-Sedlintsky

    • annotation: [identification of sitters]/ Berlin. 1859- Ladies & Gentleman in waiting of Pce & Pcf F. W. of Prussia [beneath work]

    • 18.3 x 24.2 cm (image)

      28.4 x 23.0 cm (page dimensions)

      29.5 x 24.5 x 6.0 cm (album)

    • Ladies and Gentlemen in Waiting to Prince and Princess Frederick William of Prussia, Berlin, 1859 [Photographic Portraits Vol.2/60 1852-1859]

    • Acquired by Queen Victoria and Prince Albert

    • Subject(s)
      • Places
        • Europe
          • Germany
            • Berlin [Germany]
      Object type(s)
        • visual works
          • photographs
          • albums
            • photograph albums
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