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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'

1854

Hand-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)

  • 15.5 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
      • Arctic territories
        • Arctic regions
        • Greenland
    • Natural Sciences & Mathematics
      • Zoology
        • Animals
          • Mammals
            • Humans
              • Babies (human)
      • Biological sciences
        • Anthropology, Nationality & People
          • Inuit