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- Sitters:
(left to right)
- Unidentified.
- Don Carlos, 8th Duke of
Sotomayor, Special Spanish Ambassador for Queen Victoria's Jubilee,
and diplomatic suite.
- Don José Caro, secretary
of the Special Spanish Embassy and actual secretary of the Spanish
legation in Lisbon in 1897.
- Don Carlos, 8th Duke of
Sotomayor (d. 1910), Special Spanish Ambassador for Queen Victoria's
Jubilee
- Captain Hon. Alwyn Henry
Fulke Greville (1854-1929), later Colonel Greville.
- [Other sitters: Señor
Alfonso Merry del Val; Señor Benitez al Villar.]
- Date:
24 June 1897.
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- Occasion:
Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee; State Evening Party at Buckingham
Palace, 24 June 1897.
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- Location:
Lafayette studio, 179 New Bond Street, London.
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- Descr:
FL
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- Costume:
(Caro) Uniform of a Knight of the Royal Society of
Chivalry of Valencia. (3) Uniform of a Knight of the Royal Society
of Zaragoza.[ck] (Greville) Full dress uniform as
Equerry to the Prince of Wales.
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- Orders, Decorations
& Medals:
(Unidentified
sitter) neck badge, Royal Order of Charles III (Spain);
badge, Order of Pius (Vatican/Holy See); badge, Order of Leopold
(Belgium); badge, Order of Villa Vicosa (Portugal); Military star
of the Order of Merit (Spain).
- (Caro)
neck badge, Order of Isabella the Catholic (Spain); badge, Order
of Charles III (Spain); badge, Order of the Sacred Treasure (Japan);
badge of the Order of Saint Gregory (Vatican); badge, Order of
the Rising Sun (Japan); Star, The Royal Order of Chivalry of Valencia.
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- (Sotomayor)
neck badge, Order of Malta; star, sash & badge of the Royal
Order of Charles III (Spain); star of the Royal Order of Zaragoza;
embroidered cross of the Military Order of Santiago.
- (Greville)
Queen Victoria's Jubilee Medal 1887; Order of the Dannebrog (Denmark).
(Unidentified sitter)
The Military Order of Christ (Portugal & Vatican).
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- Furniture &
Props: Rococo style painted backdrop; studio Persian rug.
Photographer:
The firm of J. Lafayette, 179 New Bond Street, London, W.
Evidence of photographer
at work: -
No of related negatives:
4
Copyright:
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Provenance:
Pinewood Studios; acquired 1989.
References:
Biog: (Sotomayor)
The Marquis of Ruvigny, The Titled Nobility of Europe, London,
1914. (Col. Greville) Burke's Peerage; Who Was
Who. (Don José Caro, Señor Alfonso Merry del Val &
Señor Benitez al Villar) The Times, 25 June 1897,
p 9e.
Occasion:
The Times, 15 June 1897, p 8e & 25 June 1897, p 9e.
Costume:
(Col. Greville) National Army Museum.
Orders, Decorations
& Medals: (Order of Zaragoza and Order of Santiago)
Federico Fernández de la Puente y Gómez, Condecoraciones Españolas,
Madrid, (?); (Order of Valencia) A. Flatto; (Queen
Victoria's Jubilee Medal) Howard N. Cole, Coronation and
Royal Commemorative Medals 1887-1977, London, 1977; (all
other Orders) R. Werlich, Orders and Decorations of
All Nations, Washington, 1990.
Acknowledgements:
(Greville) Mrs. S.K. Hopkins, Head of Department of
Uniform, Badges and Medals, The National Army Museum, London. (Orders
etc.) David Bownes; A. Flatto; Andrew Litherland, Spink's medal
dept.
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