Mary Victoria (née Leiter), Lady Curzon of Kedleston; Sir Pratab Singh, Maharaja of Jammu and Kashmir and approximately 22 others
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© National Portrait Gallery, London
Mary Victoria (née Leiter), Lady Curzon of Kedleston; Sir Pratab Singh, Maharaja of Jammu and Kashmir and approximately 22 others
published by Underwood & Underwood
albumen stereoscopic card, 1903
3 1/4 in. x 3 1/8 in. (82 mm x 78 mm) (each image)
Given by Terence Pepper, 2001
Photographs Collection
NPG x88909
Sittersback to top
- Mary Victoria (née Leiter), Lady Curzon of Kedleston (1870-1906), Vicereine of India; first wife of Lord Curzon of Kedleston (later 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston). Sitter in 10 portraits.
- Sir Pratab Singh, Maharaja of Jammu and Kashmir (1850-1925), Reigned 1885-1925. Sitter in 5 portraits.
Artistback to top
- Underwood & Underwood (active 1881-1940s), Photographers. Artist or producer associated with 29 portraits.
This portraitback to top
The glamorous Lady Curzon is shown here leaving a museum in Kashmir, India, as she protects herself from the sun with a parasol, a precursor to the glossy magazine images of celebrity outings with which today's audiences are familiar.
Watch a Digital interpretation of the original stereoscopic card here.
Linked displays and exhibitionsback to top
- Curators' Choice: Photographs from the Terence Pepper Gift (12 May 2015 - 24 January 2016)
- Viceroys of India (23 April 2012 - 16 December 2012)
Subjects & Themesback to top
Events of 1903back to top
Current affairs
Emmeline Pankhurst forms the militant organisation, the Women's Social and Political Union, campaigning for greater rights for women and to secure them the vote. Its members were known as 'suffragettes', and adopted the slogan of 'Deeds, not words'.Joseph Chamberlain resigns as Colonial Secretary to campaign for tariff reform and an end to free trade, a key economic issue which splits the Conservative party.
Art and science
Henry James publishes The Ambassadors. Autobiographical in tone, it movingly and humorously traces the conversion of the American Lewis Lambert Strether, sent to Paris to find his widowed fiancee Mrs Newsome's wayward son Chad, to European culture.Charles Rennie Mackintosh, the leading Scottish arts and crafts designer and architect, designs the Willow tea rooms in Glasgow for his patron, Miss Catherine Cranston.
International
The Bolsheviks (meaning 'the majority'), a faction of the exiled Marxist Russian Social Democratic Labour Party, are formed after splitting from the Mensheviks at the Second Party Congress in London.After gaining independence following the end of the Spanish-American war, Cuba is forced to accept a permanent US military presence at Guantánamo Bay.
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