April 17, 2024
Maharaja Dalip Singh SCARCE ANTIQUE CDV PHOTOGRAPH
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WHAT YOU ARE BIDDING ON IS Maharaja Dalip Singh SCARCE ANTIQUE CDV PHOTOGRAPH AVERAGE SIZE IS 4X2.5 INCHES GOOD CONDITION - DUE TO SCAN SOME OF THE EDGES MAY LOOK TRIMMED BUT ARE NOT SHOWN BIGGER THAN ACTUAL SIZE - CARTE-DE-VISITE - The Carte-de-visite (CDV), was the style of photograph which was universally adopted for photographic portraiture in 1860. The first carte-de-visite was patented in Paris in 1854 by Adolphe-Eugene Disderi. It later spread to Maharaja Dalip Singh,[1] GCSI (6 September 1838, Lahore, Sikh Empire – 22 October 1893, Paris, France), commonly called Duleep Singh and later in life nicknamed the Black Prince of Perthshire,[2] was the last Maharaja of the Sikh Empire. He was the youngest son of the legendary "Lion of the Punjab" Maharaja Ranjit Singh and Maharani Jind Kaur, and came to power after a series of intrigues, in which several other claimants to the throne and to the Koh-i-Noor diamond, killed each other.[3] After his exile to Britain at age 13 following the British annexation of the Punjab, he was befriended by Queen Victoria. In June 1850, Lord Dalhousie presented the Kohinoor Diamond by Dalip Singh after it was confiscated by the British. From that date on, the diamond became part of the Crown Jewels,[4] set in the Crown of Queen Elizabeth and on display in the Jewel House in the Tower of London.[
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