1862-1888
28.9 x 23.2 cm (11 3/8 x 9 1/8 in.) photograph: 19.1 x 23 cm (7 1/2 x 9 1/16 in.)
Seiden & de Cuevas, Inc., New York, NY, purchased from Christie's, 1978, Gift to the Fogg Art Museum, 1982. On Long Term Loan to the Fogg Art Museum from 1978 to 1982
Album page with albumen silver print; verso: three carte de visite albumen silver prints. Autograph of the Duke of Mecklenburg Strelitz is affixed to page beneath photograph, device imprinted with the motto of the Order of the Garter ("Honi Soit Qui Mal y Pense" "Shamed be he who thinks evil of it").
19th centuryBritishAlbum page with one albumen silver print; verso: two albumen silver prints.
19th centuryBritishAlbum page with two albumen silver prints with hand coloring and autographs. Page is hand decorated with crowns, flags, and other symbols, blue banner on bottom of page reads "Honi soit qui mal y pense; Abergeldie, October 1865." Honi soit . . . means "shamed be he who thinks evil of it," the motto of the Order of the Garter.
19th centuryBritishAlbumen silver print mounted on page.
19th centuryBritishAlbum page with seven albumen silver prints; verso: photograph is missing.
19th centuryBritishAlbum page albumen silver print, decorated with red and gilt paint in the four corners of the page. Clockwise from upper left corner, "M" with Bessie written inside; upper right "M" with Agnes written inside; lower right "T" decorated with red striped ribbon tied in a bow; lower left, T with "Marie" written on a banner crossing the "T".
19th centuryBritish