Children's albums
PRINCESS HELENA (1846-1923)
Princess Helena's Photographs, Volume 1
1859Leather bound album | 18.3 x 13.7 x 2.5 cm (whole object) | RCIN 2906408
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'.
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'.
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 BritainPrincess 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 GreyAlbert Grey18.3 x 13.7 x 2.5 cm (whole object)
- Gifted to Princess Helena in 1859 by her brother Albert Edward, Prince of Wales
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]
- Isle of Wight [England]
- Scotland
- Aberdeenshire [Scotland]
- Abergeldie [Aberdeenshire]
- Abergeldie Castle [Abergeldie]
- Balmoral Castle [Aberdeenshire]
- Abergeldie [Aberdeenshire]
- Stirlingshire [Scotland]
- Loch Katrine
- Aberdeenshire [Scotland]
- England
- Great Britain
- Europe
Object type(s)
- visual works
- albums
- photograph albums
- photographs
- albums
- Places
