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AFTER FRANCES SALLY DAY (1815-92)

Mary, Viscountess Folkestone (1820-79)

1887 copy after an original of 1858

Carbon print | 17.4 x 13.1 cm (image) | RCIN 2906711

Photograph of a three-quarter length portrait of Mary, Viscountess Folkestone (1820-79), seated facing right, her face captured in profile. She wears a dark coloured shawl around her arms and a lace cap.

  • Creator(s)

    After Frances Sally Day (1815-92) (photographer)

    Hughes & Mullins (1883-1917) (photographer)

    Subject(s)

    Mary Augusta Frederica Pleydell-Bouverie, Countess of Radnor (1820-79)

  • 17.4 x 13.1 cm (image)

    28.4 x 23.0 cm (page dimensions)

    29.5 x 24.5 x 6.0 cm (album)

  • Mary, Viscountess Folkestone, 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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