[ELISABETH (1895-1903, only daughter of Ernst Ludwig, 1868-1937, last reigning Grand Duke of Hesse & By Rhine, 1892-1918, by his first wife, 1894-1901, Victoria Melita of Saxe-Coburg & Gotha, 1876-1936)]

Memorial Portrait Postcard Photograph, by Ensalinger of Darmstadt, (successor to W. Pöllot), showing her full length, full face, with a smile beginning to form, she is on a stone garden seat in a studio setting, in coat and broad brimmed hat, sender's name in bottom margin, 5½" x 3½", no place, no date but

Elisabeth and her father grew even closer after her mother had left. Tragically she died suddenly of typhoid at the hunting lodge in Poland where they were visiting the Grand Duke's sister Alix and her husband Nicholas II.

Item Date:  1903

Stock No:  54471      £75

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