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Photographs 1842-61

Albums compiled by Prince Albert, reflecting his beliefs surrounding photography

    ? OSCAR GUSTAV REJLANDER (1813-75)

    Portrait of three men

    c. 1860

    Albumen print | 15.4 x 12.0 cm (image) | RCIN 2906280

    Photograph of a genre piece with three unidentified men gathered around a small table with glasses and jugs on. On the left is seated a man wearing a top hat, facing three-quarters right. In the background stands an elderly man who faces the viewer and who wears a tricorn hat and holds a long clay pipe in his left hand. On the right sits a man in three-quarters left who points at something, undiscernible to the viewer, with his right hand.

    • Creator(s)

      ? Oscar Gustav Rejlander (1813-75) (photographer)

    • 15.4 x 12.0 cm (image)

    • From an album of phlotographs collected and arranged by Prince Albert

    • Subject(s)
      • Science, Medicine and Technology
        • Home economics
          • Tableware
            • Drinking glasses
      Object type(s)
        • visual works
          • photographs
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