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      PRINCESS HELENA (1846-1923)

      Princess Helena's Photographs, Volume 1

      1859

      Leather 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'.

      • 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)
        Queen 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

      • 18.3 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]
              • Scotland
                • Aberdeenshire [Scotland]
                  • Abergeldie [Aberdeenshire]
                    • Abergeldie Castle [Abergeldie]
                  • Balmoral Castle [Aberdeenshire]
                • Stirlingshire [Scotland]
                  • Loch Katrine
        Object type(s)
          • visual works
            • albums
              • photograph albums
            • photographs
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