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Children's albums

Children's albums

GEORGE WASHINGTON WILSON (1823-93)

Mr and Mrs Brown and their daughter Anne

c. 1867

Albumen print | 9.0 x 7.3 cm (image) | RCIN 2160399

Photograph from an album of Mr John Brown (Bush) (1827-83), standing in right side profile alongside a wall with his right hand in his pocket. He looks down at his wife Margaret Brown (1799-1876), who is seated on the right and wearing a white bonnet. In the centre stands their daughter, Anne Brown, who looks down at her mother with her hand on the back of a chair. 

John and Margaret Brown were the parents of John Brown (1827-83), Queen Victoria's personal servant who was born in Aberdeenshire and died at Windsor Castle on the 27th March 1883. He is buried in Crathie, Aberdeenshire. 

  • Creator(s)

    George Washington Wilson (1823-93) (photographer)

    GW Wilson, & Co, 25 Crown St, Aberdeen (photographer)

    Subject(s)

    John Brown (Senior) (1790-1875)
    Brown, Anne (sister to John Brown QV's Gillie)
    Margaret Brown (1799-1876)
  • 9.0 x 7.3 cm (image)

    26.3 x 34.4 cm (page dimensions)

  • Album: Princess Helena's album 1852-68

  • Subject(s)
    • Places
      • Europe
        • Great Britain
          • Scotland
            • Aberdeenshire [Scotland]
              • Balmoral Estate [Aberdeenshire]
    Object type(s)
      • visual works
        • photographs