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Queen Alexandra (1844-1925), when Princess Alexandra of Wales 
Album of designs, incorporating photographs 
1866-1869 (ca) 
  
Album 
26.4 x 36.2 cm (page dimensions) 
  
The Royal Collection 
RCIN 2300089 
  
 
LL/93571 
  
Collage album consisting of albumen photographs arranged and adhered to twenty-nine hand-coloured pages by Queen Alexandra (1844-1925), when Princess Alexandra of Wales. This is one of two similar albums on which the Princess worked in the 1860s, which display her skill as a watercolour painter and designer. The other, which was unfinished, is now in the collection at Frederiksborg Castle, Denmark. The floral design includes photographs of the Princess’s four eldest children.
 
Acquired by Queen Alexandra when Princess of Wales 
 

 
  
 
  
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