Children's albums
THOMAS PEARCE (ACTIVE C. 1850S)
Stag Shot by the Prince in the Ditch. October 5 1857
5 - 5 Oct 1857Albumen print | 10.0 x 13.1 cm (image) | RCIN 2160333
Photograph of a stag's head with 7 point antlers resting on a wooden box against a wall. Shot by the Prince Consort.
Queen Victoria made reference to the shooting of the stag in her journal for the 5th October 1857 writing: '[Princess Helena] & I, kept with Albert to wait for deer being driven out of the Balmoral woods. Did not wait long before one lot of hinds with 4 stags came & stopped opposite us, then another larger lot, with 3 stags, one of them a very good one. [Prince Alfred] had fired at them, & they stopped. Albert had to wait until they ran, & killed a very fine stag, with one shot, at 10 yards. - we ran to look at it, & it had very fine spreading horns, & was very heavy.' RA VIC/MAIN/QVJ (W) 5th October 1857
Queen Victoria made reference to the shooting of the stag in her journal for the 5th October 1857 writing: '[Princess Helena] & I, kept with Albert to wait for deer being driven out of the Balmoral woods. Did not wait long before one lot of hinds with 4 stags came & stopped opposite us, then another larger lot, with 3 stags, one of them a very good one. [Prince Alfred] had fired at them, & they stopped. Albert had to wait until they ran, & killed a very fine stag, with one shot, at 10 yards. - we ran to look at it, & it had very fine spreading horns, & was very heavy.' RA VIC/MAIN/QVJ (W) 5th October 1857
Creator(s)
Thomas Pearce (active c. 1850s) (photographer)
Previously attributed to Unknown Person (photographer)
Subject(s)
Prince Albert, Prince Consort (1819-61)10.0 x 13.1 cm (image)
26.3 x 34.4 cm (page dimensions)
Princess Helena's Album 1852-1868
Subject(s)
- Science, Medicine and Technology
- Agriculture and related techniques
- Animal husbandry
- Field sports (hunting, shooting, stalking)
- Stag hunting
- Hunting methods
- Shooting (animals)
- Field sports (hunting, shooting, stalking)
- Animal husbandry
- Agriculture and related techniques
- Natural Sciences & Mathematics
- Biological sciences
- Zoology
- Animals
- Mammals
- Deer
- Red deer
- Stags (male deer)
- Red deer
- Deer
- Mammals
- Animals
- Zoology
- Biological sciences
Object type(s)
- visual works
- photographs
- Science, Medicine and Technology
