María de las Mercedes of Orleans (1860-1878). Queen consort of Spain by her marriage to King Alfonso XII. She died shortly after her wedding as a result of typhoid fever. The queen in her mortuary bed. Drawing from life by Badillo. Engraving by Arturo Carretero. La Ilustración Española y Americana, 1878.

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