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    WILLIAM BAMBRIDGE (1819-79)

    'Bachelor [sic], Page of the Backstairs'

    1858

    Albumen print | 12.6 x 10.0 cm (image, oval) | RCIN 2917867

    Photograph of a three-quarter length portrait of Thomas Batchelor seated, facing three-quarters to the left. He looks towards the camera. The photograph was taken when Batchelor was in the 5th year of his service as a Page of the Back Stairs.

    • Creator(s)

      William Bambridge (1819-79) (photographer)

      Subject(s)

      Thomas Batchelor (d. 1868)

    • 12.6 x 10.0 cm (image, oval)

    • From an album compiled by Princess Helena

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        • visual works
          • photographs
            • cartes-de-visite
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