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Identification and Creation

Object Number
P1982.359.86
People
Mary Georgiana Caroline Cecil Filmer, British (1838-1903)
Title
Untitled (5 photographs, trimmed to oval, clockwise from left, Countess of Bective; Lady Otis Fitzgerald; Lady Constance Howard; Mrs. Marshall; center, H.R.H. the Prince of Wales; verso: Princess Alexandra; 9 photographs of unidentified children)
Classification
Photographs
Work Type
photograph, album page
Date
1862-1888
Places
Creation Place: Europe, United Kingdom
Culture
British
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/317562

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Album page with five albumen silver prints trimmed to oval; verso: ten albumen silver prints, center Princess Alexandra with two unidentified children.
Technique
Albumen silver print
Dimensions
28.9 x 23.2 cm (11 3/8 x 9 1/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: Recto; sitter's names are inscribed in ink beneath photograph. Verso; inscribed H.R.H. Princess of Wales (Queen Alexandra), the photograph is detached from page.

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Seiden & de Cuevas, Inc., New York, NY, purchased from Christie's, 1978, Gift to the Fogg Art Museum, 1982. On Long Term Loan to the Fogg Art Museum from 1978 to 1982

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Purchase through the generosity of Melvin R. Seiden
Object Number
P1982.359.86
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
Sitter information:

Recto:

Countess of Bective. Lady Alice Sandys Hill (d. 15 February 1928). Only daugher of the 4th Marquess of Downshire KP. Married Thomas (11 February 1844-15 December 1893), Earl of Bective on 9 October 1867. MP for Westmoreland, the Earl predeceased his father the 3rd Marquess of Headfort.

Lady Otis Fitzgerald

Lady Constance Howard (d. 15 April 1910). Eldest daughter of the Earl of Winchilsea. She married the Honorable Frederick Howard (d. 26 October 1893), 3nd son of the 2nd Earl of Effingham on 3 June 1871.

Mrs. Marshall

H.R.H. the Prince of Wales. Albert Edward (1841-1910)

Verso:

Unidentified children

Alexandra, Princess of Wales (1844-1925) with two unidentified children on pony.

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