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    ROGER FENTON (1819-69)

    Queen Victoria, Prince Albert and the royal children

    1854

    Albumen print | 8.6 x 12.5 cm (image) | RCIN 2106407

    Photograph of a full length group portrait of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert with eight of their children.  The group are posed, from left to right, Prince Leopold in a pram, Prince Alfred, Princess Helena, Princess Alice, Albert Edward, Prince of Wales, Prince Arthur, Princess Louise, Queen Victoria, Victoria, Princess Royal and Prince Albert. Photograph taken in the Buckingham Palace Gardens.

    • Creator(s)

      Roger Fenton (1819-69) (photographer)

      Subject(s)

      King Edward VII, King of the United Kingdom (1841-1910)
      Prince Albert, Prince Consort (1819-61)
      Victoria, Queen of the United Kingdom (1819-1901)
      Empress Friedrich, German Empress and Queen of Prussia (1840-1901)
      Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh and Saxe-Coburg & Gotha (1844-1900)
      Prince Arthur, 1st Duke of Connaught (1850-1942)
      Princess Alice, Grand Duchess of Hesse & by Rhine (1843-78)
      Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll (1848-1939)
      Princess Helena (1846-1923)

    • 8.6 x 12.5 cm (image)

    • From the collection of Albert Edward, Prince of Wales

    • Subject(s)
      • People
        • Children
      Object type(s)
        • visual works
          • photographs
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