[PRINCE IMPÉRIAL] Elliott & Fry

[PRINCE IMPÉRIAL] Elliott & Fry

Portrait of the Imperial Prince – Contemporary albumen print
[London, after 1879], carte de visite format
Studio credit of Elliott & Fry in the lower margin and on the verso of the mount
Print: 8.9 × 6 cm
Mount: 10.6 × 6.3 cm
Very slight silvering, minor flaw on the left margin of the print

Elegant portrait of the Imperial Prince, produced in his honor after his tragic death in Southern Africa

The photograph is dated circa 1875. Louis-Napoléon appears in a medium-length portrait, with a sober and elegant pose, and a clear, determined gaze.

The credit reads:
PRINCE LOUIS NAPOLÉON
Born at Paris, March 16th, 1856
Killed near Itelezi, Zululand, 1st June, 1879

Elliott & Fry was a Victorian photography studio founded in 1863 by Joseph John Elliott and Clarence Edmund Fry. For a century, their main activity consisted of taking and publishing photographs of the Victorian public as well as social, artistic, scientific, and political personalities. In the 1880s, the firm operated three studios and four large storage facilities for negatives, with a printing works at Barnet.

Good condition.