CONCERT IN HONOUR OF ALFRED OF EDINBURGH AND HIS NEW WIFE MARIE OF RUSSIA
[VICTORIA
(1819-1901, Queen of Great Britain)]
Fine Printed Programme of Music by the Queen's Private Band,
following the State Banquet in honour of her son Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh, and Marie, second daughter of Alexander II of Russia, after their return from their wedding on 23rd January in St Petersburg, printed in gold, silver, red and blue, in a blind-embossed gothic lined frame of flower and leaf ornaments, partly pierced, displaying a fine royal arms with supporters and mottoes, and, in gold and silver repeated left and right, M[arie] A[lexandrovna] under a Princess's coronet with a Russian crown in front, the music includes 'The Duchess of Edinburgh's March' by W.G. Cusins (1833-1893, from 1870 Master of the Queen's Musick, knighted 1892), a fantasia from Glinka's Kamarinskaya, and the Entracte and Epithalamium from Lohengrin, printed by Ortner & Houle, (Heraldic Engravers to the Queen), 3 St James's Street, S.W., 1 side 4to and conjugate blank, (State Drawing Room), Windsor Castle, for Monday Evening, 9th March
a few extremely faint brown spots, otherwise excellent
Item Date:
1874
Stock No:
56434
£225
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[VICTORIA
(1819-1901, Queen of Great Britain)]
Fine unsigned cabinet photo by Russell & Sons,
showing the Queen half length wearing a hat, coat and gloves, 5½" x 4½", no place, no date,
trimmed at top and bottom
Item Date:
0
Stock No:
29533
£125
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[VICTORIA
(1819-1901, Queen of Great Britain)]
Fine unsigned cabinet photo by William Luks,
showing the Queen surrounded by her entire family at the time, with a key on the verso, 6½" x 4¼", London, no date, c.
Item Date:
1877
Stock No:
22609
£125
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[VICTORIA
(1840-1901, Empress Frederick of Germany, wife of Frederick III)]
Fine unsigned cabinet photo by William Luks,
showing her three quarters length wearing an elaborate velvet dress, 6½" x 4¼", no place, no date, c.
Item Date:
1890
Stock No:
24638
£95
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THE STATE VISIT OF ALEXANDER II
[VICTORIA
(1819-1901, Queen of Great Britain)]
Fine programme of entertainment for the evening of the arrival of Tsar Alexander II and his entourage at Windsor,
the evening begins with the Overture, "Paradise and the Peri" by W. S. Bennett and continues with works by Meyerbeer, Glinka and Gounod and also has "The Galatea Waltz, H.R.H. The Duke of Edinburgh" and ends with "The Duchess of Edinburgh's March" by Cusins, 1 side 8vo., wonderfully decorated with the embossed British and the Imperial crests hand coloured in gold, blue, black and red, Windsor Castle, 13th May
Item Date:
1874
Stock No:
34911
£875
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