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    UNKNOWN PERSON

    Tent for the wedding breakfast

    23 - 23 Jul 1885

    Albumen print | 15.9 x 22.3 cm (image) | RCIN 2905697

    Photograph of the interior of a striped tent. At the centre of the tent is a wedding table laid for the wedding breakfast for Princess Beatrice and Prince Henry of Battenberg. There are lanterns hanging from the tent's ceiling. Photograph taken at Osborne.

    • Creator(s)

      Unknown Person (photographer)

    • 15.9 x 22.3 cm (image)

    • Acquired by Queen Victoria

    • Subject(s)
      • Social sciences
        • Ethnology
          • Social customs
            • Marriage
              • Wedding breakfasts
      • Science, Medicine and Technology
        • Industries, Crafts and Trades
          • Travel Goods
            • Tents
      Object type(s)
        • visual works
          • photographs
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