CDV: Queen Victoria’s daughter PRINCESS ALICE

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CDV: Queen Victoria’s daughter PRINCESS ALICE A carte-de-visite portrait of Princess Alice, the third child and second daughter of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert. In July 1862, a few months after the death of her father, she married Louis IV, Grand Duke of Hesse-Darmstadt. The bride wore a black trousseau and the marriage, the Queen herself said, was more like a funeral than a wedding.Though Lord Clarendon considered him 'a dull boy' coming from 'a dull family in a dull country', and the Duchess of Cambridge thought it 'an insignificant match', Alice was delighted with her partner.She died of diphtheria at the age of thirty-five on 14 December 1878, the seventeenth anniversary of her father's death.Photographed by John and Charles Watkins of 34, Parliament Street, London.Condition: please see scans. The print shows a few small, faint imperfections in the area of the background and its tones drop off a little towards the upper and lower edges of the image. Although the mount presents no border along its right edge and that edge feels hand-cut, the mount is nevertheless the regular width of a carte-de-visite and was probably always as it is now is. It is otherwise clean, firm and crisp.Dimensions: The dimensions of a standard carte-de-visite are approx. 4.1” by 2.5” (105 mm by 63 mm). Be sure to check out all my other auctions on read more

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