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HILLS & SAUNDERS (1852-2019)

Miss Alice Van de Weyer

1868

Albumen print | 8.9 x 5.8 cm (image) | RCIN 2911517

Photograph of a three-quarter length portrait of Miss Alice Van de Weyer, standing, facing three-quarters to the right. She looks ahead, away from the camera. She poses against a wooden trellis. She places her left hand against the trellis and holds a vine in her right hand.

  • Creator(s)

    Hills & Saunders (1852-2019) (photographer)

    Subject(s)

    Alice Van de Weyer (1856-1926)

  • annotation: Miss Alice Van de Weyer. 1868. [beneath work]

  • 8.9 x 5.8 cm (image)

    9.6 x 6.3 cm (mount)

    22.7 x 18.0 cm (page dimensions)

  • Acquired by Queen Victoria

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