37

Containers:

Box SC-07 Box 1, Folder 5, Item SC07.01.5.051

Creator:

Schaffer Collection

Extent:

1 page

Scope and content:

Transcription: [double-headed eagle] The Schaffer Collection of Russian Imperial Art Treasures ROCKEFELLER CENTER, NEW YORK April 2, 1936 #37 Most intimate and rare photograph of the late Czarina Alexandra Feodorovna, wife of Nicholas II, the late Czar of Russia. It is set in an unusually fine frame of lapis lazuli. The photograph was taken by her husband, the Czar, on their private yacht, and is from the personal belongings of the Grand Duchess Tatiana, the second daughter of Nicholas II. From the Alexandrovsky Palace at Tsarskoye Selo. It bears the original catalogue number 2004.

MRS. JOHN L. PRATT

Language:

English

Acquisition information:

Gift of Lillian Thomas Pratt.

Biographical / historical:

American--1

Physical description:

Paper

Physical facet:

Sales records

Other descriptive data:

Schaffer Collection, Russian Imperial Art Treasures, Rockefeller Center

Digitization of the Lillian Thomas Pratt Archives has been made possible by the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Related material:

47.20.322

Names:

Schaffer Collection

Places:

New York (N.Y.)

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