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

George Leicester Warren, 2nd Baron de Tabley, and Lord George Lennox

1889 copy after an original of 1860

Carbon print | 8.1 x 5.6 cm (image) | RCIN 2906912

Photograph of a double portrait of Lord de Tabley (1811-87) and Lord Lennox. de Tabley  is seated, facing three-quarters to the right. He reads a newspaper. Lennox faces the viewer and leans on a plinth.

  • Creator(s)

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

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

    Subject(s)

    George Warren (1811-87)
    Lord George Lennox (fl.1861-1874)

  • 8.1 x 5.6 cm (image)

    28.4 x 23.0 cm (page dimensions)

    29.5 x 25.0 x 5.0 cm (album)

  • George Leicester Warren, 2nd Baron de Tabley, and Lord George Lennox, 1860 [or 1861; 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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