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    FRANCES SALLY DAY (1815-92)

    Lady Mary Georgina Hardinge (1836-1917)

    c. 1859

    Albumen print | 7.6 x 5.4 cm (image) | RCIN 2906430

    Photograph of Lady Mary Georgina Hardinge (1836-1917), seated at a table, facing three-quarters to the left. She turns her head to the left and looks down at a book she holds with both hands. Hardinge was eventually a women of the bedchamber to Alexandra, Princess of Wales, later Queen Alexandra (1844-1925).

    • Creator(s)

      Frances Sally Day (1815-92) (photographer)

      Subject(s)

      Mary Georgina Frances Hardinge (1836-1917)

    • annotation: Mrs Hardinge/ Osborne/ Miss Day [beneath work]

    • 7.6 x 5.4 cm (image)

    • Acquired by Princess Helena

    • Object type(s)
        • visual works
          • photographs
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