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UNKNOWN PERSON

Empress Maria Feodorovna (1847-1928), when Princess Dagmar of Denmark

c.1861

Albumen print | 7.8 x 4.8 cm (image) | RCIN 2907864

Photograph of Princess Dagmar standing and facing towards the camera. She rests her right arm on a small side table. She wears a dress with vertical stripes.

  • Creator(s)

    Unknown Person (photographer)

    Subject(s)

    Empress Maria Feodorovna of Russia (1847-1928)

  • annotation: Dagmar [beneath work]

  • 7.8 x 4.8 cm (image)

    9.5 x 6.3 cm (mount)

    23.0 x 18.2 cm (page dimensions)

    24.2 x 20.0 x 5.5 cm (album)

  • Dagmar. [Album: Photographs. Royal Portraits, vol.48]

  • Acquired by Prince Albert, the Prince Consort

  • Object type(s)
      • visual works
        • photographs
          • cartes-de-visite
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