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Queen Victoria, Queen of the United Kingdom (1819-1901)
Alix dated 9 May 1875
Pencil, watercolour | 26.7 x 18.5 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 980024.hj
Queen Victoria, Queen of the United Kingdom (1819-1901)
Master: Sketches of the Royal Children by V. R. from 1841-1859 Item: Alix dated 9 May 1875
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A watercolour showing the bust of Queen Victoria's twelth grandaughter, Princess Alix of Hesse. She is shown facing left in profile, with bare shoulders.
Inscribed below: Alix.
Inscribed lower right: May 9. 1875.
Princess Alix was the fourth daughter of Queen Victoria's second daughter, Princess Alice, and her husband, Prince Louis of Hesse. She married Tsar Nicolas II in 1894, becoming the last Tsarina of Russia. She was assinated alongside her husband and five children in 1918 in the aftermath of the Bolshevik Revolution. -
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Pencil, watercolour
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26.7 x 18.5 cm (sheet of paper)
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