| Unidentified photographer 'Count and Countess Alexander Mensdorff; Count Alexander Mensdorff-Pouilly-Dietrichstein (1813-71) and Alexandrine Marie, Countess of Mensdorff-Pouilly-Dietrichstein (1824-1906) 1857, July Albumen print, hand-coloured with watercolour 21 x 16.7 cm (image) The Royal Collection RCIN 2914277 LL/91195 Photograph of a full length, double portrait of Count Alexander Mensdorff-Pouilly-Dietrichstein (1813-71) and Alexandrine Marie, Countess of Mensdorff-Pouilly-Dietrichstein (1824-1906). The couple stand, facing the camera, and pose with their arms linked. There is a painted backdrop in the background, depicting a view of a landscape. The Count was a first cousin of Queen Victoria through the marriage of her aunt, his mother.
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