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Memorial works

Following Albert’s premature death, Victoria commissioned the creation of photographs and decorative objects that memorialised her beloved husband

    AFTER? HILLS & SAUNDERS (1852-2019)

    The Queen's Bedroom, Windsor Castle

    copy of a photograph of c. 1873

    Albumen print | 6.3 x 7.9 cm (whole object) | RCIN 2418589

    Photograph of Queen Victoria's Bedroom, in the Private Apartments, Windsor Castle. In the room there is a half-tester bed with a knitted square blanket on top, a bedside cabinet with a bell, and a sofa with cushions at the foot of the bed that is partially obscured. A cross and pictures hang on the wall, one of which is a portrait of Princess Ferdinand of Saxe-Coburg (1797-1862) by Cordon (RCIN 407130). There is an open door with view into the next room on the left of the photograph.

    The photograph is in an envelope marked 'One Set of Rooms - (Reduced)'.

    • Creator(s)

      After? Hills & Saunders (1852-2019) (photographer)

    • 6.3 x 7.9 cm (whole object)

    • A label on a brass tablet (RCIN 55344) suggests that the photograph was 'always placed on the Queen's writing table'

    • Subject(s)
      • Places
        • Europe
          • Great Britain
            • England
              • Berkshire [England]
                • Windsor [Berkshire]
                  • Windsor Castle
                    • Interiors of Windsor Castle
                    • Upper Ward [Windsor Castle]
                      • Private Apartments [Windsor Castle]
                        • Queen's Bed Room [Private Apartments, Windsor Castle]
      • Science, Medicine and Technology
        • Home economics
          • The Home
            • Bedrooms
          • Furniture & accessories
            • Beds
            • Cabinets (furniture)
            • Seating. Chairs
              • Seats
            • Cushions
          • Mending of Clothes at home
            • Knitting
      Object type(s)
        • visual works
          • photographs
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