Sophie Cat 56 - Sophie Dupre

Clive Farahar & Sophie Dupré, XV The Green, Calne, Wilts, SN1 8DQ, Tel: (01249) 821121 66
514. [ROOSEVELT (Franklin Delano, 1882-1945, 32nd
President of the United States during World War II)]
Fine unsigned press photo of Roosevelt showing the
president in profile, 7” x 5”, 25th June 1938 [SD25070]£60
515. [RUDOLF (1858-1889, Crown Prince of Austria
who shot himself at Meyerling)]
Fine unsigned cabinet photo by Angerer, showing him head
and shoulders in uniform, 6½” x 4”, Vienna, n.d., c. 1888
[SD22601]£175
THE HERO OF JALALABAD
516. SALE (Major-General Sir Robert Henry, G.C.B.,
1782-1845)
Fine Engraved Portrait three-quarter length in full uniform
with sword and decorations, by F. Holl after H. Moseley, 5”
x4”onpage10½” x 8”, Fisher and Son, London and Paris
n.d., c. 1845, laid down by side margins [SD50095]£125
Sale served in India under Baird against Tippoo Sahib (1798) and
under Wellesley. In the Afghan War of 1838 he commanded the
1st Bengal Brigade, which reached Kandahar in April 1839. He
led the storming party at Ghazni in person and marched on to
Kabul, where he was left with the army of occupation and was
joined by his wife and daughter. When the Indian government
stopped the subsidy to the frontier tribes, Sale was ordered to clear
the route back to Peshawar, and during the campaign sustained a
memorable siege at Jalalabad, November 1841- April 1842.
517. [TATIANA (1897-1918, daughter of Nicholas II of
Russia, assassinated with her family)]
Fine original unsigned Russian postcard photo showing her
half length in profile, sitting down wearing a jewelled dress
and hat, titled in Russian, 5½” x 3½”, n.p., n.d., c. 1917
[SD25518]£100
518. [UMBERTO I (1844-1900, King of Italy) & his wife
MARGHERITA (1851-1926)]
Fine pair of unsigned cabinet photos by Kunsthandel,
Austria & Brogi, Florence, showing them three quarters
length, he is in uniform and she is in a court dress, 6½” x
4¼”, n.p., n.d. [SD23882]£175
519. [UMBERTO II (1844-1900, King of Italy)]
Unsigned Italian postcard photo, showing him head and
shoulders in uniform, titled below in Italian, 5¼” x 3½”,
n.p., n.d., [SD25901]£75
520. [VICTORIA (1840-1901, Empress Frederick of
Germany, wife of Frederick III)]
Attractive unsigned Carte-de-visite photograph by L. Haase
&Co.,Berlin, showing her full length, in a bonnet, shawl
and crinolined dress, 4” x 2½”, n.p., n.d., [SD25533]£75
521. [VICTORIA EUGENIA (1887-1969,
Granddaughter of Queen Victoria, daughter of Princess
Beatrice of Battenberg &, Wife of Alfonso XIII of Spain) &
her father HENRY (1858-1896, Prince of Battenberg)]
Fine unsigned cabinet photo by Jabez Hughes, showing her
as a child wearing a white dress with neckscarf and bonnet,
sitting on her fathers knee, 6” x 4½” 1893 [SD25527]£425
522. [VICTORIA ALEXANDRA (1868-1935, Princess,
Daughter of Edward VII & Princess MAUD 1869-1938)]
Fine unsigned origninal photo of the sisters standing
together, both dressed in white, holding bouquets, 6”x 4”,
n.p., n.d., [SD25384]£95
523. [VICTORIA MELITA (1876-1936, wife of Grand
Duke Ernst Ludwig of Hesse and secondly Grand Duke
Kirill, granddaughter of Queen Victoria)]
Original unsigned postcard photo showing her three-quarter
length in profile, sitting on a chair, 5½” x 3½”, n.p., n.d.
[SD25894]£125
524. [WARWICK (Frances Evelyn, 1861-1938, wife of
the Earl of Warwick, Mistress of Edward VII, ‘Darling
Daisy’)]
Unsigned postcard photo showing her driving a car with a
young Maynard Greville seated next to her, 5½” x 3½”,
n.p., n.d., c. 1903 [SD23453]£75
525. [WILHELM I (1797-1888, Emperor of Germany)]
Unsigned cabinet photo of a painting showing him full
length, looking out of a window, 6¼” x 4½”, n.p., n.d., c.
1887 [SD23313]£75
526. [WILHELM II (1859-1941, German Emperor 1888-
1918)]
Fine unsigned cabinet photo by Reichard & Lindner,
showing him in fancy dress from the period of Frederick the
Great, 6½” x 4¼”, Berlin, n.d., c. 1905 [SD22624]£175
527. [WILHELM III (Friedrich Viktor August Ernst,
1882-1951, Son of Kaiser Wilhelm II, Crown Prince of
Germany & of Prussia, renounced the throne in 1918)]
Unsigned postcard photo showing him in uniform, 5½” x
3½”, n.p., n.d., c. 1905 [SD23448]£50
528. [XENIA (Grand Duchess, 1875-1960, Sister of
Nicholas II of Russia and Wife of his Cousin Grand Duke
Alexander) with her sister OLGA (1882-1960, Grand
Duchess)]
Unsigned Russian postcard photo showing them half length,
wearing silk dresses and pearls, seated together on a sofa,
5½” x 3½”, n.p., (Petrograd), n.d., c. 1915 [SD23751]£475
It is very rare to find a postcard of the two sisters as Olga’s private
nickname for Xenia was ‘Monster’. Both sisters retired, one to
the Crimea, the other to Kiev at the time of the First World War.
529. [YUSUPOV (Princess Irena, 1895-1970, wife of
Prince Feliks Feliksovich, 1887-1967, Organized murder
of Rasputin)]
Exceptional unsigned Portrait photograph showing her three
quarters length, wearing typical twenties costume, 9½” x
6½”, n.p., (Paris) 1926 [SD25982]£475
One of the great beauties of her age, cousin to the tsar’s children
and only niece of the tsar. Her husband Yusupov (Youssoupoff),
afervent monarchist, married her in 1914 with the backing of the
Dowager Empress but the disapproval of the Tsar and Empress.
Rasputin was invited to a supper at Yusupov’s palace on 15th
December 1916, thinking that Irena would be there, but she was in
the Crimea. He was shot dead, after a strong dose of potassium
cyanide in his wine had failed to kill him.