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The Department of Prints and Photographs of the Danish Royal Library holds a similar photograph by Georg E. Hansen but with the inclusion of a small child, dated 1875.
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HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN (1805-1875)
Cabinet photograph of Hans Christian Andersen, full-length, in profile, seated in an armchair, holding a book, by Georg E. Hansen of Copenhagen, inscribed on the reverse in Danish, 'G. Bentley Esq. warm regards from his friend Hans Christian Andersen'.
Cabinet photograph of Hans Christian Andersen, full-length, in profile, seated in an armchair, holding a book, by Georg E. Hansen of Copenhagen, inscribed on the reverse in Danish, 'G. Bentley Esq. warm regards from his friend Hans Christian Andersen'.