Princess Helena's Photographs, Volume 1 1859

Leather bound album | 18.3 x 13.7 x 2.5 cm (whole object) | RCIN 2906408

Princess Helena (1846-1923)

Princess Helena's Photographs, Volume 1 1859

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Princess Helena (1846-1923)

Princess Helena's Photographs, Volume 1 1859

Small burgundy half leather-bound album containing 69 photographs (RCINs 2906409-2906477) of portraits of the Royal Family and their friends and a few topographical views. The album features gold tooling on spine, which features four raised bands.

The album is inscribed 'Lenchen from Bertie. Nov: 1859. Windsor Castle.' 'Bertie' refers to Albert Edward, Prince of Wales, later King Edward VII (1841-1910) and 'Lenchen' refers to Princess Helena (1846-1923), from the German nickname 'Helenchen'.

People involved

Creator(s)

Princess Helena (1846-1923) (compiler)

After Franz Xaver Winterhalter (1805-73) (artist)

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

William Henry Southwell (1823-70) (photographer)

Dudley Charles Fitzgerald, 24th Baron de Ros (1827-1907) (photographer)

Frances Sally Day (1815-92) (photographer)

Subject(s)

Alice, Countess of Lathom (1841-97)

Princess Mary, Duchess of Gloucester & Edinburgh (1776-1857)

Victoria, Queen of the United Kingdom (1819-1901)

Prince Albert, Prince Consort (1819-61)

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

Beatrice, Princess Henry of Battenberg (1857-1944)

King Edward VII, King of the United Kingdom (1841-1910)

Great Britain

Princess Alice, Grand Duchess of Hesse & by Rhine (1843-78)

Empress Friedrich, German Empress and Queen of Prussia (1840-1901)

Wilhelm II, Emperor of Germany & King of Prussia (1859-1941)

Lady Jane Spencer, Baroness Churchill (1826-1900)

Maria Hocédé (d. c. 1901)

John Brown (1826-83)

Marianne Skerrett (1793-1887)

Dr Ernst Becker (1826-88)

Princess Victoria, Duchess of Kent (1786-1861)

Georgiana Susan Turnour, Countess of Winterton (1841-1913)

Albertha Frances Anne, Marchioness of Blandford (1847-1932)

Beatrice Eliza Christiana Catherine Blundell-Hollinshead-Blundell (1825-84)

Lucy Maria Kerr (1822-1874)

Lady Frances Anne Bruce Baillie (1831-94)

General Sir Charles Grey (1804-70)

Caroline Eliza Grey (c. 1814-90)

Sir Arthur Edward Hardinge (1828-92)

Mary Georgina Frances Hardinge (1836-1917)

Victoria Grey

Albert Grey
Measurements

18.3 x 13.7 x 2.5 cm (whole object)
Provenance

Gifted to Princess Helena in 1859 by her brother Albert Edward, Prince of Wales
Groupings
Object type(s)
visual works
albums
photograph albums
photographs
Subject(s)
Places
Europe
Great Britain
England
Isle of Wight [England]
Carisbrooke Castle [Isle of Wight]
Osborne Estate [Isle of Wight]
Osborne House
Ventnor [Isle of Wight]
Freshwater [Isle of Wight]
Plumbly's Hotel [Freshwater, Isle of Wight]
Shanklin [Isle of Wight]
Shanklin Chine [Shaklin]
Scotland
Aberdeenshire [Scotland]
Abergeldie [Aberdeenshire]
Abergeldie Castle [Abergeldie]
Balmoral Castle [Aberdeenshire]
Stirlingshire [Scotland]
Loch Katrine