Lot 279
RUSSIAN ROYALTY: MARIA FEODOROVNA. SALEROOM NOTICE: SIGNED PHOTOGRAPH IS OF GRAND DUCHESS VLADIMIR, NOT DOWAGER EMPRESS Y
A COLLECTION OF PHOTOGRAPHS, A COMMONPLACE BOOK AND A BLOTTER
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs
Auction: 2 October 2018 at 12:00 BST
Description
photograph, 13.5 x 10cm, showing the Grand Duchess Vladimir of Russia, Maria Feodorovna, signed 'Maria 1904 2.' in Cyrillic, in an elaborate gilt wood frame, 26 x 22cm, backed in green silk; Russian Carte-de Visite album including a cabinet card of the Grand Duchess Alexandra Josefovna by A. Pasetti, St Petersburg, and another, German cabinet card of tsar Alexander III, in total 49 photographs in a blue morocco album with yellow metal corners, decorative elements and a clasp, 25 x 20cm; Commonplace Book with the ownership signature Marinia ? in Cyrillic to free-endpaper, containing 45 manuscript and embellished leaves, written in Russian, English and French, dated from the late 1880s to the early 1890s, green velvet covers with yellow metal embellishment and clasp, 24 x 15.5cm; and a brown morocco blotting set with an ivory band (4)