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Title(s)
Cabinet card portrait of the Princess of Wales, later Queen Alexandra, wearing academic robes, Trinity College, Dublin, 1885.
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Published/Created
Dublin, 1885.
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Physical Description
1 cabinet card : albumen print on card mount ; 17 x 11 cm
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Holdings
Rare Books and Manuscripts
In Process
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Rosemarie Haag Bletter and Martin Filler in memory of Paul Mellon, Yale College, Class of 1929
Accessible in the Study Room [Request] -
Copyright Status
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Full Alma Record
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Classification
Photographs
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Notes
"In the spring of 1885 Alexandra, princess of Wales, visited Ireland and was photographed by [Lauder's] studio after receiving an honorary degree [a Doctor of Music at Trinity College, Dublin]. This remarkable image of a princess in a scholarly role caught the public imagination and more than 60,000 prints were sold."--Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, entry for James Stack Lauder (pseud. James Lafayette).
Lafayette's full photograph shows the princess in three-quarter length, holding her certificate scroll. The present derivative is cropped to a half-length portrait.
Printed on mount below photograph: Lafayette, Dublin.
Stamped in blind by William Luks, photograph and print dealer at London.
Printed on verso: Photographer, Lafayette. Late of Paris. Photographer to T.R.H. The Prince & Princess of Wales ... 30, Westmoreland St., Dublin. [In small print at foot:] D. Hutinet, Paris.
BAC: British Art Center copy signed in manuscript on reverse: M.E.D.S. -
Subject Terms
Alexandra, Queen, consort of Edward VII, King of Great Britain, 1844–1925 -- Portraits. | Great Britain -- Kings and rulers -- Portraits. | Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland)
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Form/Genre
Albumen prints. | Cabinet photographs. | Photographs. | Portrait photographs.
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