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Landscape, Nature and Architecture

Technological improvements enabled Prince Albert to collect photographs of places that were significant to him

      UNKNOWN PERSON

      The Duchess's Sitting Room. With her chair, in which she sat when she was taken ill, 15th March 1861, Frogmore House

      1861

      Hand coloured photograph | 16.6 x 22.0 cm (image) | RCIN 2101326

      Hand coloured photograph of Princess Victoria, Duchess of Kent's (1786-1861) Sitting Room, Frogmore House. The chair in which the Duchess she sat when she was taken ill stands to the right of a large fireplace. A circular table stands in the left of the foreground.
      • Creator(s)

        Unknown Person (photographer)

        Subject(s)

        Princess Victoria, Duchess of Kent (1786-1861)
      • 16.6 x 22.0 cm (image)

        37.4 x 54.6 cm (mount)

      • Acquired by Queen Victoria and Prince Albert

      • Subject(s)
        • Places
          • Europe
            • Great Britain
              • England
                • Berkshire [England]
                  • Windsor [Berkshire]
                    • Windsor Home Park
                      • Frogmore Estate [Windsor Home Park]
                        • Frogmore House
                          • Interiors [Frogmore House, Windsor Home Park]
        • Science, Medicine and Technology
          • Home economics
            • The Home
              • Sitting rooms
            • Furniture & accessories
              • Tables
              • Seating. Chairs
                • Chairs
                • Footstools
              • Mirrors
              • Furnishings
                • Lighting Devices
                  • Candle holders
                    • Candelabra
          • Ceramics
            • Porcelain
          • Engineering & Technology
            • Containers
              • Vessels (containers)
                • Vases
        • Arts, Recreation, Entertainment & Sport
          • Plastic arts
            • Sculpture
              • Busts
        • Natural Sciences & Mathematics
          • Botany
            • Systematic botany
              • Plants & Flowers
        Object type(s)
          • visual works
            • photographs