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? CAMILLE SILVY (1834-1910)

Caroline Augusta Edgcumbe, Countess of Mount Edgcumbe (1808-81)  

1860

Albumen print | 8.5 x 5.5 cm (image) | RCIN 2910746

Photograph of a full length portrait of Caroline Augusta Edgcumbe, Countess of Mount Edgcumbe (1808-81) standing facing right, her face captured in profile. She rests her hands on top of a balustrade.

Edgcumbe was Lady of the Bedchamber from 1840 to 1854 and 1863 to 1865, and Extra Lady of the Bedchamber in the intervening and subsequent periods.

  • Creator(s)

    ? Camille Silvy (1834-1910) (photographer)

    Subject(s)

    Caroline Augusta Edgcumbe, Countess of Mount Edgcumbe (1808-81)

  • annotation: The Countess of Mount Edgcumb. [beneath work]

  • 8.5 x 5.5 cm (image)

    9.4 x 6.2 cm (mount)

    23.1 x 18.0 cm (page dimensions)

  • Acquired by Prince Albert

  • Object type(s)
      • visual works
        • albums
          • photograph albums
        • photographs
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