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AFTER LEONIDA CALDESI (1823-91)

The Honourable Louisa Gordon and the Honourable Eleanor Stanley

1887 copy after an original of 25 Jun 1857

Carbon print | 22.3 x 17.8 cm (image) | RCIN 2906645

Photograph of a full length double portrait of Louisa Gordon (b. 1829) and Eleanor Stanley (b. 1821). Gordon stands on the left with a handkerchief and a hat in her right hand. She looks towards the camera. Stanley stands on the right, facing towards the camera. She places her right hand around the left arm of Gordon.

  • Creator(s)

    After Leonida Caldesi (1823-91) (photographer)

    Hughes & Mullins (1883-1917) (photographer)

    Subject(s)

    Louisa Frances Charlotte Ponsonby (1829-1910)
    Eleanor Long (1821-1903)

  • 22.3 x 17.8 cm (image)

    28.4 x 23.0 cm (page dimensions)

    29.5 x 24.5 x 6.0 cm (album)

  • The Hon. Louisa Gordon and Hon. Eleanor Stanley, 25th June 1857 [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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