Prince Albert collected photographs of places significant to him
Sir Edward Augustus Inglefield (1820-94)
An Inuit Nurse with a baby and young girl : 'Nurse and girl' 1854
Hand-coloured albumen print | 15.5 x 16.8 cm (image) | RCIN 2510471
![Nurse and girl, Greenland [Album: HMS's Phoenix and Talbot in search of Sir John Franklin 1854]](https://albert.rct.uk/sites/default/files/styles/rctr-scale-1300-500/public/collection-online/4/c/643529-1479296280.jpg?itok=DeNC6GPk "Nurse and girl, Greenland [Album: HMS's Phoenix and Talbot in search of Sir John Franklin 1854]")
Hand-coloured photograph of an Inuit woman ('Nurse'), standing and facing the viewer and holding a baby on her back. On her left stands a younger girl whose hands are raised towards the baby who also faces the viewer. The Nurse wears her hair in a band wound above her head.
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Creator(s)
Sir Edward Augustus Inglefield (1820-94) (photographer)
Subject(s)
Inuit -
15.5 x 16.8 cm (image)
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Nurse and girl, Greenland [Album: HMS's Phoenix and Talbot in search of Sir John Franklin 1854].
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Presented to Queen Victoria and Prince Albert by Captain Edward Augustus Inglefield in 1854
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Object type(s)
- visual works
- photographs
Subject(s)
- Places
- Polar regions
- Arctic territories
- Arctic regions
- Greenland [Denmark]
- Arctic territories
- Polar regions
- Natural Sciences & Mathematics
- Zoology
- Animals
- Mammals
- Humans
- Babies (human)
- Humans
- Mammals
- Animals
- Zoology
- People
- Girls
- visual works
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