Landscape, Nature and Architecture
Technological improvements enabled Prince Albert to collect photographs of places that were significant to him
SIR EDWARD AUGUSTUS INGLEFIELD (1820-94)
An Inuit Nurse with a baby and young girl : 'Nurse and girl'
1854Hand-coloured albumen print | 15.5 x 16.8 cm (image) | RCIN 2510471
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.
Creator(s)
Sir Edward Augustus Inglefield (1820-94) (photographer)
Subject(s)
Inuit15.5 x 16.8 cm (image)
Nurse and girl, Greenland [Album: HMS's Phoenix and Talbot in search of Sir John Franklin 1854].
- Presented to Queen Victoria and Prince Albert by Captain Edward Augustus Inglefield in 1854
Subject(s)
- Places
- Polar regions
- Arctic territories
- Arctic regions
- Greenland [Denmark]
- Arctic territories
- Polar regions
- Natural Sciences & Mathematics
- Biological sciences
- Zoology
- Animals
- Mammals
- Humans
- Babies (human)
- Humans
- Mammals
- Animals
- Zoology
- Biological sciences
- People
- Girls
Object type(s)
- visual works
- photographs
- Places
