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GUSTAV WILLIAM HENRY MULLINS (1854-1921)

'Prince Victor of Hohenlohe-Langenburg' (1833-91)

1889 copy after an original of 1854

Carbon print | 17.2 x 14.1 cm (image) | RCIN 2906587

Photograph of a three-quarter length portrait of Prince Victor of Hohenlohe-Langenburg (1833-91), seated, facing halfway towards the left. He gazes ahead, away from the camera. He poses with his left hand in his overcoat pocket and his right hand, holding a hat, resting on his raised right knee.

  • Creator(s)

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

  • Prince Victor of Hohenlohe/ Langenburg - 1854 - / by Dickenson

    Reproduced & Printed in Carbon by [break] Mullins 1889

  • 17.2 x 14.1 cm (image)

    28.2 x 22.9 cm (page dimensions)

  • Prince Victor of Hohenlohe-Langenburg, 1854 [Photographic Portraits. Vol 1/59 (1853-1857)]

  • Acquired by Queen Victoria and Prince Albert

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