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    W & D DOWNEY : 57 & 61 EBURY STREET, LONDON

    Group of servants

    c.1866

    Albumen print | 26.3 x 34.4 cm (page dimensions) | RCIN 2160407

    Photograph of a full length group portrait, posed around a fountain. The group are, in the back row, from left to right W. Middleton, J. Stewart, J. Thomson and J. Spong, in the front row, W. Patterson and J. Robertson.

    Photograph taken at Balmoral.

    • Creator(s)

      W & D Downey : 57 & 61 Ebury Street, London (photographer)

    • 26.3 x 34.4 cm (page dimensions)

      9.0 x 5.5 cm (image)

    • Subject(s)
      • Places
        • Europe
          • Great Britain
            • Scotland
              • Aberdeenshire [Scotland]
                • Balmoral Estate [Aberdeenshire]
      • Arts, Recreation, Entertainment & Sport
        • Architecture
          • Secular architecture
            • Fountains
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