76/4456 [Royalty and public figures]. Album with 119 cartes-de-visite and cabinet photographs, ±1860-1910, mainly of members of European royal houses, loosely inserted in orig. calf album w. silver coloured metal panneling, a.e.g.

- Incl. approx. 80 photographs of painted portraits of the sitters.

= MEMBERS OF THE ROYAL FAMILIES include: H.R.H. the Prince of Wales (later King Edward VII: 5 different photographs; 2x faded/yellowed), Czar Alexander III (2 different photographs; sl. faded/ yellowed), King George I of Greece, Crown Prince Gustaf, King Alfonso XII of Spain (faded), Princess Mathilde of Bavaria with her husband Prince Ludwig Gaston of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (cabinet photograph SIGNED by both), Wilhelmina as crownprincess and Wilhelmina as queen; POLITICIANS AND SOLDIERS include: Stonewall Jackson, Adolphe Thiers, Randolph Churchill; ACTORS AND AUTHORS include: Henry B. Irving, Ellen Terry, Sarah Bernhardt and her Niece, Charles Dickens (horizontal crack and faded) and J.P. Hasebroek.