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Glass plate negatives

Albert and Victoria’s collection of glass plate negatives show photographers’ working methods

WILLIAM BAMBRIDGE (1820-79)

Princess Louise, later Duchess of Argyll (1848-1939)

Oct 1859

Wet collodion negative | RCIN 2082940

Glass plate negative of a three-quarter length portrait of Princess Louise, later Duchess of Argyll (1848-1939), her face captured in profile. She wears a collared shirt, earrings and her hair in plaits. 

A print of this work exists in the Royal Collection, RCIN 2900230.

  • Creator(s)

    William Bambridge (1820-79) (photographer)

  • From the collection of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert

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