Prince Albert collected photographs of places significant to him
Sir Edward Augustus Inglefield (1820-94)
H.M.S. Diligence and H.M.S. Phoenix, Lieveley : ''Talbot' and 'Phoenix'' 1854
Albumen print | 14.3 x 19.7 cm (image) | RCIN 2510482
![HMS's Diligence and Phoenix, 1854 [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/a/7/643540-1479296415.jpg?itok=eAwjvg4H "HMS's Diligence and Phoenix, 1854 [Album: HMS's Phoenix and Talbot in search of Sir John Franklin, 1854]")
Photograph of HMS Diligence on the left and HMS Phoenix in harbour, possibly at Lieveley, now known as Godhavn on the south west coast of Disko Island off Greenland. In the background stand snow lined mountains and in the foreground there is a rocky shore.
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Creator(s)
Sir Edward Augustus Inglefield (1820-94) (photographer)
Subject(s)
Phoenix (HMS)HMS Diligence (storeship, launched 1814; sold 1904) -
14.3 x 19.7 cm (image)
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HMS's Diligence and Phoenix, 1854 [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]
- Disko [Greenland]
- Qeqertarsuaq [Disko, Greenland]
- Disko [Greenland]
- Arctic territories
- Polar regions
- Science, Medicine and Technology
- Engineering & Technology
- Vessels (marine)
- Ships
- Waterway engineering
- Harbours
- Vessels (marine)
- Engineering & Technology
- visual works
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