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Glass plate negatives

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

      PRINCE ALFRED, DUKE OF EDINBURGH AND SAXE-COBURG & GOTHA (1844-1900)

      Queen Victoria and Princess Alice with a bust of Prince Albert

      Mar 1862

      Wet collodion negative | RCIN 2082738

      Glass plate negative featuring two images of full length portraits of Princess Alice and Queen Victoria posed with a bust of Prince Albert.

      Prints of this negative exist in the Royal Collection, see RCINs 2900538 and 2900539.

      • Creator(s)

        Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh and Saxe-Coburg & Gotha (1844-1900) (photographer)

        Subject(s)

        Queen Victoria, Queen of the United Kingdom (1819-1901)
        Princess Alice, Grand Duchess of Hesse & by Rhine (1843-78)
        Prince Albert, Prince Consort (1819-61)
      • From the collection of Queen Victoria

      • Subject(s)
        • Social sciences
          • Ethnology
            • Mourning
        Object type(s)
          • visual works
            • photographs
              • negatives
                • glass plate negatives
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