Children's albums
Children's albums
UNKNOWN PERSON
'The Queen's Birthday table'
24 - 24 May 1859Salted paper print | 17.6 x 25.5 cm (image) | RCIN 2917895
Photograph of Queen Victoria's birthday table at Osborne. The table is adorned with gifts, including sculptures and paintings. Floral decorations are hung above and on the table, including flowers arranged in the monogram 'VA'.
Queen Victoria wrote of the present table in her journal: 'All the dear Children (7) excepting our 2 Boys, far away, were assembled with nosegays & took me to my present table, full of charming gifts. The Children had all done pieces of work, or drawings.'
Queen Victoria wrote of the present table in her journal: 'All the dear Children (7) excepting our 2 Boys, far away, were assembled with nosegays & took me to my present table, full of charming gifts. The Children had all done pieces of work, or drawings.'
Creator(s)
Unknown Person (photographer)
17.6 x 25.5 cm (image)
- From an album compiled by Princess Helena
Subject(s)
- Places
- Europe
- Great Britain
- England
- Isle of Wight [England]
- Osborne Estate [Isle of Wight]
- Osborne House
- Osborne Estate [Isle of Wight]
- Isle of Wight [England]
- England
- Great Britain
- Europe
- Social sciences
- Ethnology
- Social customs
- Gifts (social customs)
- Social customs
- Ethnology
- Arts, Recreation, Entertainment & Sport
- Plastic arts
- Sculpture
- Art
- Paintings
- Plastic arts
Object type(s)
- visual works
- photographs
- cartes-de-visite
- photographs
- Places
