Original Carte-de-Visite (CDV) portrait photograph of Benjamin Disraeli (1804–1881), Earl of Beaconsfield, British statesman and author of Jewish ancestry who served twice as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. Photographed by royal photographer Cornelius Jabez Hughes (1819–1884), photographer to Queen Victoria and the Prince of Wales, during the celebrated sitting at Osborne, Isle of Wight, on 22 July 1878, undertaken by command of Queen Victoria. Portraits from the same sitting are documented in the collection of the National Portrait Gallery, London. The mount is marked “JABEZ HUGHES – RYDE I.W.”, while the reverse bears the gilt Royal Photographic Studio backmark identifying Hughes as photographer to the Queen and H.R.H. the Prince of Wales.
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