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Photographs 1842-61

Albums compiled by Prince Albert, reflecting his beliefs surrounding photography

      PRINCE ALBERT, PRINCE CONSORT (1819-61)

      Photographs. Volume III

      1850-60

      Leather bound album | 18.3 x 14.3 cm (whole object) | RCIN 2800757

      Small maroon leather-bound album with title on spine and gold tooling. All edges gilt. Album contains photographs (RCINs 2800758-2800822) of paintings, portraits, views of India, dogs in the Royal Kennels, and theatrical and tableaux scenes. Some of the original photographs were reproduced in carbon at later date.

      First page inscribed, 'All the Photographs in this Volume were collected and arranged by His Royal Highness The Prince Consort'.

      • Creator(s)

        Prince Albert, Prince Consort (1819-61) (compiler)

        William Bambridge (1819-79) (photographer)

        Joseph Cundall (1819-95) (photographer)

        Antoine François Jean Claudet (1797-1867) (photographer)

        Thomas Richard Williams (1825-71) (photographer)

        Roger Fenton (1819-69) (photographer)

        Leonida Caldesi (1823-91) (photographer)

        Dr Ernst Becker (1826-88) (photographer)

        Thomas Pearce (active c. 1850s) (photographer)

        André Adolfe Eugène Disdéri (1819-89) (photographer)

        George Washington Wilson (1823-93) (photographer)

        Subject(s)

        Eugénie, Empress of the French (1826-1920)
        Queen Victoria, Queen of the United Kingdom (1819-1901)
        William Ross (1822-91)
        Napoléon III, Emperor of the French (1808-73)
        Sarah Forbes Bonetta (1843-1880)
        Edward, Prince of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach (1823-1902)

      • 18.3 x 14.3 cm (whole object)

      • Collected and arranged by Prince Albert

      • Subject(s)
        • Places
          • Asia
            • India
              • Gujarat [India]
                • Ahmedabad [Gujarat]
          • Europe
            • Great Britain
              • Scotland
                • Gordon Castle
                • Aberdeenshire [Scotland]
                  • Balmoral Estate [Aberdeenshire]
                  • Balmoral Castle [Aberdeenshire]
        Object type(s)
          • visual works
            • albums
              • photograph albums
            • photographs
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