- SAXONY, HRH PRINCE FREDERICK
AUGUSTUS, DUKE OF
- Neg. No: GP (L) 1298A
- Neg. Size: 12"x15"
- Neg. Date: 25-06-1897
Subject: Prince
Frederick Augustus of Saxony and diplomatic suite.
Date:
25 June 1897
Occasion:
The Diamond Jubilee and receipt of Queen Victoria's Jubilee Medals.
Sitters:
(left to right)
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Sitter:
Unidentified
[potentially:
Freiherr von Reitzenstern, First Lieut. von Metzsch [sic], Baron
von Oppell]
Costume:
Uniform of an Officer of the Saxon Garde de Corps
Orders and decorations:
Queen
Victoria Jubilee Medal 1897.
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Sitter:
Unidentified
[potentially:
Freiherr von Reitzenstern, First Lieut. von Metzsch [sic], Baron
von Oppell]
Orders and decorations:
Badge,
Order of the Phoenix (Hohenlohe)(?)
Queen Victoria Jubilee Medal 1897
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Sitter:
King
Frederick Augustus III of Saxony (1865-1932), when Prince Frederick
Augustus.
Orders and decorations:
Kaiser
Wilhelm Centenary Medal 1897
Queen
Victoria Jubilee Medal 1897
star and sash, Order of the Crown of Rue (Saxony)
star, Order of Ernestine (House Order of the Duchies of Saxony)
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Sitter:
Major-General
Sir Francis Howard (1848-1930), when Colonel and temporary A.D.C.
to Prince Frederick Augustus
Costume:
Undress uniform of an Aide-de-Camp
to the Queen
Orders and decorations:
Queen
Victoria's Jubilee Medal 1887
Indian General Service Medal 1884-95 with 2 clasps, Jowaki 1877-78
and Burma 1887-89
2nd Afghan War Medal with clasp Ali Musjid
Commander, Star of Roumania 1892
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Sitter:
Unidentified
[potentially:
Freiherr von Reitzenstern, First Lieut. von Metzsch [sic], Baron
von Oppell]
Orders and decorations:
Badge,
Order of Ernestine (House Order of the Duchies of Saxony)
badge, Order of Albert (Saxony)
badge, Military Order of Saint Henry (Saxony)
Franco-Prussian War Medal
badge, Order of the Lion of Zahringen (Baden)
Officer's Long Service Cross (Saxony)
Queen Victoria Jubilee Medal 1897
star, sash and badge of the Order of the Crown of Württemberg (Württemburg)
star, Order of Frederick (Württemberg)
Order of the White Falcon (Saxe Weimar)
star, Order of Ernestine (2nd Class) (House Order of the Duchies
of Saxony) |
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Location: The Lafayette studio, 179 New Bond Street, London,
W.
Descr: FL.
Furniture & Props:
Painted backdrop with landscape after Reynolds;(1)
studio column and balustrade; studio Persian rug.
Photographer: The
firm of J. Lafayette, 179 New Bond Street, London, W.
Evidence of photographer at
work: Canvasses and props visible to right of plate.
No of related negatives:
3 [see neg nos 1296-23 and 1296-274].
Copyright:
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Provenance: Pinewood Studios; acquired 1989.
References:
Biog:
- (King of Saxony)
Hugh Montgomery Massingberd ed., Burke's Royal Families of the
World, Vol 1, London, 1977, Vol 1, p 178a;
Louisa of Tuscany, Ex-Crown Princess of Saxony, My Own Story,
London, 1911;
- (Sir Francis Howard)
Who's Who; Major General Sir Francis Howard, Reminiscences
1848-1890, London, 1924; [For Freiherr von Reitzenstern, First
Lieut. von Metzsch & Baron von Oppell, see The Times,
25 June 1897, p 9e.]
Costume: (Howard)
Mrs. S.K. Hopkins, Head of Department of Uniform, Badges and Medals, The
National Army Museum, London.
Orders, Decorations and Medals:
- (Queen Victoria Jubilee
Medal 1897) Howard N. Cole, Coronation and Royal Commemorative
Medals 1887-1977, London, 1977
- (Order of the Phoenix,
Order of the Crown of Rue, Ernestine Order,
Order of the Star - Rumania, Order of Albert,
Military Order of Saint Henry, Order of the Lion
of Zahringen & Order of Frederick) R.
Werlich, Orders and Decorations of All Nations, Washington, 1990
- (Kaiser Wilhelm Centenary
Medal 1897) D.G. Neville, Medal Ribbons and Orders of
Imperial Germany and Austria, St. Ives, 1974
- (Indian General Service
Medal & Afghanistan War Medal) E.C. Joslin, A.R. Litherland
& B.T. Simpkin, British Battles & Medals, London,
1988
- (Franco-Prussian War
Medal, Order of the Order of Württemberg & Order of the White
Falcon) Andrew Litherland, Spink's medal department
- (Officer's Long Service
Cross, Saxony) A. Flatto
Acknowledgements:
(Orders etc) (Sir Francis Howard) Mrs.
S.K. Hopkins, Head of Department of Uniform, Badges and Medals, The National
Army Museum, London; (Others) David Bownes; A. Flato;
Andrew Litherland, Spink's Medal Department.
1. Backdrop after
portrait of Elizabeth Catharine Rivett, Mrs. Carnac, by Sir Joshua
Reynolds c. 1775. (The Wallace Collection). (J. Ingamells, The
Wallace Collection, Catalogue of Pictures, London, 1985.)
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