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

Group portrait at Osborne

1887 after an original of Mar 1858

Carbon print | 13.0 x 16.8 cm (image) | RCIN 2906709

Photograph of a full length group portrait taken at Osborne, featuring, from left to right, the Honourable Emily Cathcart (1834-1917), Lord Charles Colville (1818-1903), Lady Jane Churchill (1826-1900) and Colonel Thomas Biddulph (1809-78). There are trees and a trellis in the background.

  • Creator(s)

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

    Hughes & Mullins (1883-1917) (photographer)

    Subject(s)

    Emily Sarah Cathcart (1834-1917)
    Lady Jane Spencer, Baroness Churchill (1826-1900)
    Charles Colville, 1st Viscount Colville of Culross (1818-1903)
    General Sir Thomas Myddelton Biddulph (1809-78)

  • annotation: Honble Emily Cathcart Lord Colville Lady Churchill Col: Biddulph./ Osborne March 1858. [break] Capt: de. Ros [beneath work]

  • 13.0 x 16.8 cm (image)

    28.4 x 23.0 cm (page dimensions)

    29.5 x 24.5 x 6.0 cm (album)

  • Group, Osborne, March 1858 [Photographic Portraits Vol.2/60 1852-1859]

  • Acquired by Queen Victoria and Prince Albert

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