Caption
25 portraits of Prince Louis Bonaparte, Archduchesses Stefanie and Elisabeth of Austria, King Umberto I of Italy and others, Collection Nilsson - Nouvelle Série, page, photomechanical print, inscription: 'Prince Louis Bonaparte, Archiduchesses Stéphanie et Elisabeth d'Autriche, Roi d'Italie Lucie Faure Ménélick Léon 1894 - in or before 1899, paper, collotype, photoprint, height 239 mm x width 154 mm, Person, Stefanie of Belgium, Elisabeth Amalie Eugenie in Bavaria (Empress of Austria), Umberto I of Italy, Napoleon Lodewijk Jozef Jérôme Bonaparte, historical persons, historical persons - BB - woman, king, A vertically oriented sheet displays a grid of sepia-toned photographic portraits arranged in rows, featuring men and women in historical attire. The top row shows several uniformed men in profile and three-quarter views wearing decorative helmets and military jackets with sashes and epaulettes. Below are portraits of women in Victorian-style dresses and hats, one seated beside a railing and another holding a small bouquet. The next row includes formal portraits of a man in a decorated military uniform, a seated woman in an elegant gown, a man wearing elaborate traditional regalia with a patterned headdress and ornate garment, a smiling older man in clerical vestments, and a cleric wearing a cape and collar. Further down are small oval and rectangular portraits of men with beards and suits posed standing or seated, and a sequence of three-quarter and bust views of young women in draped garments with hands crossed at the chest. The page background is a pale, aged paper with some slight spotting and the images have uniform margins and captions beneath each portrait.
Credit line
Photo12/Liszt Collection
Reference
LZT26B06_010
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36.4Mb (7.9Mb) / 9.3in x 15.3in / 2783 x 4575 (300dpi)