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AFTER ANTOINE FRANÇOIS JEAN CLAUDET (1797-1867)

Marie Walburg, Baroness de Speth (fl. 1857)

1887 copy after an original of 1852

Carbon print | 10.8 x 7.8 cm (image) | RCIN 2906677

Photograph of a three-quarter length portrait of Baroness de Speth seated, facing halfway to the left. She looks ahead, away from the camera. She holds a book in her left hand. She wears a striped dress and bonnet.

Photograph from a daguerreotype by Antoine François Jean Claudet.

  • Creator(s)

    After Antoine François Jean Claudet (1797-1867) (photographer)

    Hughes & Mullins (1883-1917) (photographer)

    Subject(s)

    Marie Walburg, Baroness de Speth

  • 10.8 x 7.8 cm (image)

    28.4 x 23.0 cm (page dimensions)

    29.5 x 24.5 x 6.0 cm (album)

  • Marie Walburg, Baroness de Speth, 1852 [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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