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LADY MARY CHARLOTTE FOLEY (1822-69)

'The Marchioness of Waterford'; Christiana Leslie, Marchioness of Waterford (d.1905)

1889 copy after an original of 1854

Carbon print | 11.4 x 8.00 cm (image) | RCIN 2906599

Photograph of Christiana, Marchioness of Waterford (d.1905), leaning out of a window, her face captured in profile. She rests her arms on the window ledge. The window is framed by ivy. 

  • Creator(s)

    Lady Mary Charlotte Foley (1822-69) (photographer)

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

    Subject(s)

    Lady Christiana Waterford (d. 1905)

  • annotation: The Marchioness of Waterford- / 1854. [beneath photograph]

    annotation: Reproduced & Printed in Carbon by [break] Mullins 1889 [beneath photograph]

  • 11.4 x 8.00 cm (image)

    28.2 x 22.9 cm (page dimensions)

  • The Marchioness of Waterford, 1854 [Photographic Portraits. Vol 1/59 (1853-1857)]

  • Acquired by Queen Victoria and Prince Albert

  • Subject(s)
    • Natural Sciences & Mathematics
      • Botany
        • Systematic botany
          • Flowering plants
            • Ivy
    Object type(s)
      • visual works
        • photographs
        • albums
          • photograph albums
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