Princess Elisabeth of Hesse with her maternal cousins: Carol and Elisabeta of Romania, and Gottfried of Hohenlohe-Langenburg in about 1898.
source: theedinburghz Instagram page.
Two cabinet cards depicting the same photograph by C. Ruf: Elisabeth of Hesse and her mother, Grand Duchess Victoria Melita, in 1898.
On the right, a fuller and bigger version from my personal collection. On the left, a cropped and smaller version recently sold online.
Cabinet photograph depicting Princess Elisabeth of Hesse wearing a sailor suit in 1898.
source: Hessisches Staatsarchiv, edited and enhanced by me.
Cabinet photograph by C. Ruf depicting Princess Elisabeth of Hesse and her mother, Grand Duchess Victoria Melita in 1898.
source: my collection. This is the only cabinet card I own, for the moment.
Enhanced close-up of Elisabeth.
source: my collection
Princess Elisabeth of Hesse wearing matching hats with her mother, Victoria Melita. Photograph from 1898 by C. Ruf.
+ Huge enhanced close-up
source: Royal Collection Trust
Princess Elisabeth of Hesse wearing a traditional Romanian costume in about 1898.
source: Queen Victoria’s grandaughters’ Facebook page
On the left of Tsar Nicholas II and Grand Duchesses Olga and Tatiana of Russia, we can see a 1898 photograph of Princess Elisabeth of Hesse with her mother. 1899, Saint Petersburg.
sources: Ilia Grigoryev, Royal Collection Trust.
Princess Elisabeth of Hesse riding side saddle at the entrance of the Neues Palais in 1898.
+Enhanced close up
source: my collection
Cabinet photograph by C. Ruf. depicting Princess Elisabeth of Hesse with her mother, Victoria Melita, in 1898. The photograph is inscribed “Ducky” and “Elisabeth” by Victoria Melita herself.
+close up & back
source: recently sold in Coutau-Bégarie for 1.095€. The photograph originally came from the Connaught family archive
Designed by Mackay Hugh Baillie Scott (Isle of Man 1865 – Bedford 1945); made by Guild and School of Handicraft, London
Oak, leather, silk
Height: 160.6 cm. Width: 67 cm. Diameter: 57 cm.
A stellar example of the English Arts and Crafts movement, this high-backed chair was part of the furnishings of the radically novel reception room Ernst Ludwig commissioned for the Darmstadt Neue Palais. The architect and designer Balli Scott collaborated with Charles Ashbee, whose Guild and School of Handicraft executed work.
You can see little Elisabeth sitting on this armchair’s armrest in a photograph taken in 1898. There are more images from this same session, and of Princess Victoria Melita herself posing alone on this chair.
sources:
first image and text below: Hesse: a princely German collection
second image: my collection
