Prince Albert collected photographs of places significant to him
Queen Victoria, Queen of the United Kingdom (1819-1901)
Albert's sport 29 - 29 Sep 1854
Pencil, watercolour and pen and ink on tracing paper | 16.8 x 41.2 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 980583
A watercolour showing a row of six dead stags. A tracing of RCIN 980030.c. They are shown lying, facing right with their backs shown to the front. Each stag has their weight inscribed beneath them, from left to right: (Hind) 8 ston, 11 ston, 12 st 8lbs, 13st 9lbs, 13st 3lbs, 12 st - 6lbs.
Inscribed below: Albert's sport - Sept: 28 - 1854. Killed with 6 shots - out stalking on the Muickle Pass - VR sketched from her window Balmoral (old house) - Sept: 29 54.
Deer stalking was a favourite pastime of Prince Albert, especially while staying at Balmoral. Queen Victoria would often sketch her husband's prizes once they had been brought back to Balmoral. Queen Victoria describes in her journal how Prince Albert spent the whole day of 28 September 1854 stalking and "killed with 6 shots, 5 stags & a hind out of one lot, which is quite wonderful & almost unheard of!". She proudly documented his kill in her sketchbook the next day.
Inscribed below: Albert's sport - Sept: 28 - 1854. Killed with 6 shots - out stalking on the Muickle Pass - VR sketched from her window Balmoral (old house) - Sept: 29 54.
Deer stalking was a favourite pastime of Prince Albert, especially while staying at Balmoral. Queen Victoria would often sketch her husband's prizes once they had been brought back to Balmoral. Queen Victoria describes in her journal how Prince Albert spent the whole day of 28 September 1854 stalking and "killed with 6 shots, 5 stags & a hind out of one lot, which is quite wonderful & almost unheard of!". She proudly documented his kill in her sketchbook the next day.
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Creator(s)
View person pageQueen Victoria, Queen of the United Kingdom (1819-1901) (artist)
Subject(s)
Prince Albert, Prince Consort (1819-61) -
16.8 x 41.2 cm (sheet of paper)
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From the collection of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert
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Object type(s)
- visual works
- drawings/watercolours
Subject(s)
- Science, Medicine and Technology
- Agriculture and related techniques
- Animal husbandry
- Field sports (hunting, shooting, stalking)
- Stag hunting
- Hunting methods
- Stalking
- Field sports (hunting, shooting, stalking)
- Animal husbandry
- Agriculture and related techniques
- Natural Sciences & Mathematics
- Zoology
- Animals
- Mammals
- Deer
- Red deer
- Stags (male deer)
- Hinds (female of the red deer)
- Red deer
- Deer
- Mammals
- Animals
- Zoology
- Places
- Europe
- Great Britain
- Scotland
- Aberdeenshire [Scotland]
- Balmoral Castle [Aberdeenshire]
- Aberdeenshire [Scotland]
- Scotland
- Great Britain
- Europe
- visual works
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