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Francis Bedford
Memorial to Sir Thomas Maitland [Corfu]
1862, 24 February
Albumen print
22.8 x 29.2 cm (image)
The Royal Collection
RCIN 2700859
LL/93362
Corfu. Memorial to Lieutenant-General Sir Thomas Maitland (1759–1824), with colonnade around exterior. Obelisk to Sir Howard Douglas (1776–1861) visible through trees on left. Maitland was the Governor of Corfu, as Lord High Commissioner of the Ionian Islands, 1815-23. Douglas also served as the Lord High Commissioner, 1835-40. The photograph is signed, captioned and dated in the negative, 'F Bedford Corfu'. The number in the Day & Son series is 134.
Acquired by the Prince of Wales (later King Edward VII), 1862
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