79/4507 [Cartes-de-visite and cabinet photographs. Royalty]. Lot of 171 cartes-de-visite, ±1860-1875, almost all portrait of members of European royal families or European noble families, also including politicians and some high ranking officers and popes.

= A very rich collection, containing i.a. portraits of the following persons: Frederik, Prince of Orange-Nassau; Karl XV, King of Sweden; Willem Il, King of the Netherlands; Anna Pavlovna, Queen of the Netherlands (photograph after an earlier photograph); Willem, Alexander Paul Frederik Lodewijk Prince of Orange-Nassau (later King Willem III); Queen Victoria and Albert Prince Consort; Queen Victoria, Albert Prince Consort and their 9 children; Queen Victoria (2x, incl. an early carte-de-visite); Prince Albert (2x); Lord Clarendon; Lord John Russell; Henry John Palmerston (2x); Franz-Josef, Emperor of Austria and King of Hungary; Empress Elisabeth of Austria ("Sisi" (2x)); Maximilan I, Emperor of Mexico; Maximilian I, Emperor of Mexico with his wife, Carlota Empress of Mexico; Lajos Kossuth (Prime minister of Hungary); Marie-Christine de Bourbon (Queen-consort of Spain); Isabelle II, Queen of Spain; Don Luis I, King of Portugal (2x); Dona Maria-Pia, Queen of Portugal (2x); George V, King of Hanover; Marie of Saxe-Altenburg, Queen of Hanover; Maximilian II, King of Bavaria; Marie, Queen of Bavaria; Friedrich Wilhelm IV, King of Prussia; Wilhelm I, King of Prussia and Emperor of Germany (3x); Augusta, Queen of Prussia and Empress of Germany (2x); Prince Charles of Prussia; Princess Marie of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, wife of Prince Charles of Prussia; Wilhelmine, Marie, Sophie of Oranje-Nassau; Charles Alexander, Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach; Princess Sophie of the Netherlands; Wilhelm I, King of Württemberg (2x); Pauline Therese, Queen of Württemberg; Grand duchess Olga Nikolajewna of Russia; Charles I, King of Württemberg; Empress Alexandra Feodorovna (Charlotte of Prussia); Maria Alexandrovna, Empress of Russia (Marie of Hesse, Princess of Hesse-Darmstadt); Czar Alexander II of Russia; Grand Duke Michael Nikolaevich of Russia; Olga Feodorovna, Grand Duchess of Russia; Grand Duke Konstantin Nikolaevich of Russia (with his son Nicolai Konstantinovich); Grand Duke Konstantin Nikolaevich of Russia; Czarina Mariya Fyodorovna (wife of Czar Alexander III, and formerly Princess Dagmar of Denmark) (rare portrait); General Von Moltke; Otto, prince of Bismarck; Prince Alexei Fyodorovich Orlov; Prince Pyotr Dmitrivich Gorchacov; General Franz Eduard lvanovich von Totleben; Victor Emmanuel II, King of Italy; Johann, King of Saxony (2x); Amalia Augusta, Queen of Bavaria (2x); Carl Bernhard von Sachsen-Weimar-Eisenach, General in the "Tiendaagse Veldtocht"; Carola Princess of Vasa, later Queen of Saxony; Albert, King of Saxony; Fredrick VII, King of Denmark; Christian IX, King of Denmark; Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour, first prime-minister of Italy (2x); Urbano Ratazzi, prime-minister of Italy; Alfonso Ferrero La Marmora, prime-minister of Italy; Enrico Cialdini, Duke of Gaeta, staunch opponent of Garibaldi; Umberto I, King of Italy; Margaretha of Savoie, Queen of Italy; Pope Leo XIII; Jefferson Davis, the only president of the Confederate State (after a painting by Mathew Benjamin Brady and published by "E. Anthony" stamped on verso) and Johann Ludwig Uhland (poet, lawyer and politician). A near complete list (in Dutch) of the portrayed and of the photographers is available on request. This lot is sold on behalf of the Stichting Boeken Steunen Mensen (https://www.boekensteunenmensen.nl/). SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XLVIII.