QUEEN DAISY OF SAVOY

MARGHERITA DI SAVOIA (20 November 1851 - 4 January 1926) first queen consort of Italy since 1878, the year of the accession to the throne of her husband King Umberto I. Official photographic portrait standing with an elaborate light dress, the fan and the imposing Pearl necklace. Photograph of Michele Schemboche (active about 1865 - 1885), "photographer of His Majesty the King of Italy and Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Genoa". Album format, composition with the back of some cards showing the addresses of the workshops in Florence, Turin, Rome and Paris, and mention is made of the gold medal awarded in 1868 by Vittorio Emanuele II to the photographer as a "skilled art lover photographic "for having completed an album of the members of the Italian Parliament, and the silver medal" To the progress of the Arts of Industry and Commerce "acquired in 1871. Italy, 1882/1891

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