Every day Sophie Dupre presents two items from her large stock of signed photographs, autograph letters, autographs for sale, royal memoralbilia and antiquarian manuscripts.
The photographs are presented with the catalogue descriptions.
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February 02
On this day in 1901 Queen Victoria's funeral took place and in 1900 Gustave Charpentier's opera "Louise" premiered in Paris
THE FUNERAL OF QUEEN VICTORIA
[VICTORIA (1819-1901, Queen of Great Britain)]
‘The Order for the Burial of the Dead according to the use of the Church of England’ with inserted leaf headed ‘Funeral of her Late Majesty Queen Victoria, 2nd February 1901, Programme of Music’, 18pp 8vo., with superb purple velvet binding with embossed gilt crowns, white watered silk endpapers, gilt dentelles, London, 1901
CHARPENTIER (Gustave, 1860-1956, French Operatic Composer)
Photograph with extremely faded signature and inscription “bien sympathiquement”, to Charles Chincholles (1845-1902, journalist, novelist, dramatist and popular historian), showing the composer half length with a gentle smile and an enormous bow tie, 6” x 4”, no date, circa 1895, light traces of laying down on the verso
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