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AFTER DUDLEY CHARLES FITZGERALD, 24TH BARON DE ROS (1827-1907)

General the Honourable Charles Grey (1804-70)

1889 copy after an original of 1860

Carbon print | 8.0 x 5.6 cm (image) | RCIN 2906909

Photograph of the Honourable Charles Grey, seated on a balustrade, facing three-quarters to the right. He gazes ahead, away from the camera. He holds a book under his left arm and places his right hand in his trouser pocket.

  • Creator(s)

    After Dudley Charles Fitzgerald, 24th Baron de Ros (1827-1907) (photographer)

    Gustav William Henry Mullins (1854-1921) (photographer)

    Subject(s)

    General Sir Charles Grey (1804-70)

  • 8.0 x 5.6 cm (image)

    28.4 x 23.0 cm (page dimensions)

    29.5 x 25.0 x 5.0 cm (album)

  • General the Hon. Charles Grey, 1860 [Photographic Portraits Vol.3/61 1856-1863]

  • Acquired by Queen Victoria and Prince Albert

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