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Carol Szathmari
Monastery of Horezu, Romania
1866 (ca)
Albumen print
3.9 x 4.3 ins
Archive Farms
LL/65133
Similar image appears in the Album Alu M.S. Domnitoriulu Carolu held at the Romanian Academy Library in Bucharest.
After Prince Karl of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen was elected Prince Carol I of Romania in the year 1866, Szathmari accompanied him on his first reconnaissance journey throughout his new homeland, and the photos he took were published in the "Romania Album" conceived as a documentation of the ruler's new kingdom.
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