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Prince Albert was an early adopter of portrait photography

    UNKNOWN PERSON

    Lady Mary Anne Cust (c.1863)

    c.1861

    Albumen print | 8.6 x 5.7 cm (image) | RCIN 2910800

    Photograph of a full length portrait of Lady Mary Anne Cust (c.1863) standing, facing three-quarters to the left. She gazes ahead, away from the camera. She holds a stuffed bird in her left hand and places her right hand on a plinth.

    Cust was Woman of the Bedchamber to Prince Victoria, Duchess of Kent.

    • Creator(s)

      Unknown Person (photographer)

      Subject(s)

      Mary Anne Cust (c.1863)

    • annotation: Lady Cust. [beneath work]

    • 8.6 x 5.7 cm (image)

      9.6 x 6.1 cm (mount)

      23.1 x 18.0 cm (page dimensions)

    • Acquired by Prince Albert

    • Object type(s)
        • visual works
          • albums
            • photograph albums
          • photographs
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