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)
H.M.S. Diligence and H.M.S. Phoenix, Lieveley : ''Talbot' and 'Phoenix''
1854Albumen print | 14.3 x 19.7 cm (image) | RCIN 2510482
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.
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)
HMS's Diligence and Phoenix, 1854 [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]
- Disko [Greenland]
- Qeqertarsuaq [Disko Island]
- Disko [Greenland]
- Arctic territories
- Polar regions
- Science, Medicine and Technology
- Engineering & Technology
- Vessels (marine)
- Ships
- Waterway engineering
- Harbours
- Vessels (marine)
- Engineering & Technology
Object type(s)
- visual works
- photographs
- Places
