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 Wedding Group, Holsteinsborg
Jun 1854Albumen print | 16.1 x 20.5 cm (image) | RCIN 2510469
Photograph of a three-quarters length group portrait of an Inuit wedding group all of whom stand, facing three-quarters left. From left to right there stands an older woman described as 'mother' with her left hand over the shoulder of her daughter. Alongside her there is a young man ('affiance') wearing western dress and next to him another young female Inuit ('Sister in law'). The females all wear their hair up and tied above their heads.
Creator(s)
Sir Edward Augustus Inglefield (1820-94) (photographer)
16.1 x 20.5 cm (image)
[Historic Title] 'Mother, Daughter, Affiance and Sister-in-Law', 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)
- Social sciences
- Ethnology
- Social customs
- Marriage
- Bridegrooms
- Marriage
- Social customs
- Ethnology
- Places
- Polar regions
- Arctic territories
- Arctic regions
- Greenland [Denmark]
- Sisimiut [Greenland]
- Arctic territories
- Polar regions
Object type(s)
- visual works
- photographs
- Social sciences
