Decorative objects
Albert and Victoria commissioned and gifted decorative objects featuring photographs to celebrate special occasions
EMMA ROBERTS (ACTIVE 1861)
Osborne House fan
1861Paper leaf; tortoiseshell guards set with ten hand-coloured photographic portraits (albumen prints) in silver-gilt frames; tortoiseshell sticks (2 + 16); gold and metal pin with foiled amethyst heads | 27.8 cm (guardstick) | RCIN 25385
Creator(s)
Emma Roberts (active 1861) (fan leaf painter)
English (nationality)
27.8 cm (guardstick)
'Osborne House'
Probably commissioned by Queen Victoria as a wedding gift for Princess Alice, but not presented
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- 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
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- Botany
- Systematic botany
- Flowering plants
- Systematic botany
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