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AFTER LEONIDA CALDESI (1823-91)

Baron Stockmar (1787-1863)

1887 copy after an original of April 1857

Carbon print | 24.0 x 17.9 cm (image) | RCIN 2906642

Photograph of a three-quarter length portrait of Baron Christian Stockmar (1787-1863), seated at a small circular table and facing three-quarters to the left. He rests his right arm on the table and faces the viewer.

This carbon re-printed photograph has been placed over the top of the original salted paper print (see RCIN 2520814).

  • Creator(s)

    After Leonida Caldesi (1823-91) (photographer)

    Hughes & Mullins (1883-1917) (photographer)

    Subject(s)

    Baron Christian Friedrich Stockmar (1787-1863)

  • annotation: Reproduced & Printed in Carbon by Hughes & Mullins 1887 [on album page below image]

  • 24.0 x 17.9 cm (image)

    28.4 x 23.0 cm (page dimensions)

    29.5 x 24.5 x 6.0 cm (album)

  • Baron Stockmar, April 1857 [Photographic Portraits Vol.2/60 1852-1859]

  • Acquired by Queen Victoria and Prince Albert

  • Object type(s)
      • visual works
        • photographs
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