6025

Containers:

Box SC-07 Box 1, Folder 8, Item SC07.02.3.026

Creator:

Hammer Galleries

Extent:

1 page

Scope and content:

Transcription: [double-headed eagle] RUSSIAN IMPERIAL EXHIBIT October 31st, 1933 Article No. 6025. Photograph of Nicholai II and his wife Alexandra as they were dressed for the Imperial Costume Ball held in the Winter Palace in 1903. The entire court at this ball were dress in Russian costumes of the seventeenth century. The Tzar and the Tzarina are here represented as Michael, First Tzar of Russia and his wife Evdokia, The photograph was made by Levitski, court photographer in St. Petersburg. On the back is a seal which reads: The artistic accurateness confirmed by the Imperial Academy of Art." This photograph was obtained from the elderly governess of the Grand Duchess who is still living incognito in Moscow.

From the Hammer Collection – Three East Fifty-second Street, New York, N. Y.

Language:

English

Acquisition information:

Gift of Lillian Thomas Pratt.

Biographical / historical:

American--1

Physical description:

Paper

Physical facet:

Sales records

Names:

Hammer Galleries

Places:

New York (N.Y.)

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