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    FRANCES SALLY DAY (1815-92)

    Princess Victoria, Duchess of Kent and Prince Alfred

    c.1860

    Albumen print | 17.9 x 14.5 cm (image) | RCIN 2374624

    Photograph of a full length double portrait of Princess Victoria, Duchess of Kent (1786-1861) and Prince Alfred, later Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (1844-1900). Princess Victoria is facing the camera and poses with her arm around her grandson. Prince Alfred stands in profile, facing left, looking at his grandmother.

    • Creator(s)

      Frances Sally Day (1815-92) (photographer)

      Previously attributed to Unknown Person (photographer)

      Subject(s)

      Princess Victoria, Duchess of Kent (1786-1861)
      Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh and Saxe-Coburg & Gotha (1844-1900)

    • annotation: H.R.H. THE DUCHESS OF KENT, H.R.H. PRINCE ALFRED [beneath work]

    • 17.9 x 14.5 cm (image)

    • Acquired by Queen Victoria and Prince Albert

    • Object type(s)
        • visual works
          • photographs
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