[LUDWIG IV (1837-1892, from 1877 Grand Duke of Hesse(-Darmstadt) and By Rhine), and his first wife ALICE (1843-1878, daughter of Queen Victoria)]

Unsigned Carte-de-visite Portrait Photograph, by Disdéri of Paris & London, showing them full length, nearly full face, with linked arms, the Hereditary Grand Duke in dress military uniform, his plumed hat by him on a side table, the Hereditary Grand Duchess in an off-the-shoulder dress with a pretty lace overskirt, her braided hair round the top of her head before falling to her shoulders, 3½" x 2½", no place, no date, circa

Princess Alice, who founded in Darmstadt the Women's Union for the Care of the Sick, nursed her father Prince Albert in his last illness, the soldiers in Germany in the wars of 1866 and 1870, and her own husband and daughters in 1878 before succumbing to diphtheria.

Item Date:  1875

Stock No:  54832      £225

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