Carte de visite, portrait of Edward, Prince of Wales (the future British King Edward VII), 1874

St. Petersburg, photo studio K.I. Bergamasco, photographer of H.M. Grand Duke Nikolai Nikolayevich Romanov (the elder).
Photo is glued on branded passepartout.
Size of photo 13.7 x 10.1 cm, size of passepartout 16.5 x 10.5 cm.
On the front side in the right lower corner - imprint of fascimile signature of the photographer "Bergamasco". Minor staining, wear on edges of the passepartout, on the reverse side owner's remarks in pencil.

Albert Edward VII (1841-1910) - King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from 1901, Emperor of India, from 1904 Austrian Field Marshal, son of Victoria and Prince Consort Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, uncle of Nicholas II and William II.

Bergamasco Karl Ivanovich (Charles) (1830-1896) - owner of a photo workshop in St. Petersburg. In 1863 he received permission to be called "the photographer of the Imperial Theatres" on the condition that "he undertook to compile for the Directorate free of charge an archive and reference album of portraits of artists in all their costumes from new ballets and operas produced on the local stage". Prominent artists such as M.A. Zichi, S.K. Zaryanko and I. Charlemagne worked in his studio. In 1865, he became a photographer for Grand Duke Nikolai Nikolaevich Romanov (senior).

He received many prizes at exhibitions in Berlin (1865, 1895), Paris (1867), Hamburg (1868), St. Petersburg (1870), Vienna (1873), London (1874), Philadelphia (1876) and others. In the 1890s, he finished his activities.