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    AFTER EMPRESS FRIEDRICH, GERMAN EMPRESS AND QUEEN OF PRUSSIA (1840-1901)

    '1st Canto of "The Lady of the Lake"'

    c. 1856

    Salted paper print | 13.2 x 10.1 cm (image) | RCIN 2917826

    Photograph of an artwork depicting the first canto of 'The Lady of the Lake', the poem by Sir Walter Scott. The artwork was created by Victoria, the Princess Royal. The artwork depicts a woman, Ellen Douglas, standing on a small boat, near rocks, in a lake. She holds a stick oar.  

    • Creator(s)

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

      Unknown Person (photographer)

    • 13.2 x 10.1 cm (image)

    • From an album compiled by Princess Helena

    • Subject(s)
      • Geography
        • Physiography
          • Lakes
      • Language, Linguistics and Literature
        • Literature
          • Poetry
      Object type(s)
        • visual works
          • photographs
            • cartes-de-visite
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