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Victoria (1819-1901). Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, 1837-1901. A group of 7 cabinet cards and 1 photograph annotated in Queen Victoria's hand, 1860-93, the cabinet cards comprising 2 by W. Watson of Queen Victoria seated with Princess Beatrice and young family, near-identically annotated in blue ink by the Queen to lower mounts, 'Balmoral Nov: 1889'; cabinet card by Byrne & Co. of the infant Victoria Eugenie held on the shoulder of Queen Victoria's Indian servant Sheikh Muhammad Bakhsh, the subjects identified by the Queen in blue ink to verso and dated 1889; cabinet card by Hills & Saunders showing Prince 'Leopold & little Alice', identified in blue ink by Queen Victoria to lower mount; a cabinet card by G.P. Cartland of 3 of Princess Beatrice's children, annotated in blue ink by Queen Victoria to lower mount, 'Leopold, Alexander & Victoria Eugenie Battenberg, 1893'; 2 cabinet cards of Princess Louise Margaret of Prussia, 1 identified and dated 'Aug: 1879' by Queen Victoria to lower mount, the other inscribed by Queen Victoria to verso, 'P[rin]cess Louise Margaret of Prussia b. July 25 1860'; the final photograph of the seated Queen Victoria in mourning holding a portrait of the late Prince Albert with her son Prince Alfred standing behind her and her daughter Princess Alice kneeling beside her, albumen print laid on card, dated 'March 1862' by the Queen to verso, 16.5 x 14.5 cm (Quantity: 8) Provenance: These cabinet cards were part of a group of Queen Victoria and family cards sold by Christie's, South Kensington, 8 February 1990, lot 233, that came from the estate of Elizabeth Cavendish, Baroness Waterpark (1816-1894), Lady of the Bedchamber to Queen Victoria.