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DUDLEY CHARLES FITZGERALD, 24TH BARON DE ROS (1827-1907)
Princess Beatrice (1857-1944) with two women
Jul 1858Wet collodion negative | RCIN 2084443
Dudley Charles Fitzgerald, 24th Baron de Ros, Princess Beatrice, Jul 1858, salted paper print©
This glass plate negative, taken outside, depicts Princess Beatrice flanked by two people, possibly Princess Alice and the nanny, Mary Ann Thurston.
A print of this work (RCIN 2900137), shown on the right, features in Portraits of Royal Children, Vol.3, from 1858 to 1859. In the print, the two women either side of Princess Beatrice have been edited out.
