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[IMPERIAL FAMILY - PORTAITS]. Group of 48 portrai

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St. Petersbourg, Paris, Berlin, Rome, etc: ca .1860-1900. 48 albumen prints on original carte-de-visite and cabinet card mounts (each approximately 100 x 60 and 160 x 100 mm) most with studio imprints or stamps on card verso or beneath the print. Condition: minor toning and very occasional light spotting to prints, light edgewear to mounts with a few corners bumped. an important archive of four decades of photographic studio portraits of the royal family. Issued commercially by a variety of studio photographers including Reuthlinger in Paris, Levisky or Pasetti in St. Petersbourg, Linde in Berlin and W. & D. Downey in Newcastle (photographers to England's royal family). Included are 16 portraits of Tsar Alexandre II, mostly in uniform and often with the Empress and family, from the age of approximately 40 to a final photograph of him lying in state after his assination in 1881. Nicholas II's life is chronicled in 7 portaits from childhood to his abdication in 1917. Images of both Tsaritsas Marie Alexandrovna and Nicholas II's wife Alexandra (the last empress of Russia) are present with 10 portaits of the former including her as a young mother posed with Grand Duchess Marie as a toddler. Of particular interest is an imformal portrait of Nicholas II in a morning suit, bearing the contemporary ink notation on the verso, "Riga 1894." [With:] 7 other photographs in various formats including a news file photo of Nicholas II on the day of his abdication, an albumen print of a troop of Cossacks (the Royal guard?), Alexander with staff officers and Nicholas II reviewing soldiers during the Sino-Japanese War. (48)

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