Landscape, Nature and Architecture
Technological improvements enabled Prince Albert to collect photographs of places that were significant to him
FRANCIS BEDFORD (1815-94)
'Ketschendorf'
1857Albumen print | 18.7 x 24.5 cm (image) | RCIN 2102869
Photograph showing a view of the house at Ketschendorf. There is a lawn in the foreground. A carriage is parked beside the house. A man is seated on a bench in front of the house, on the left.
This is one of a series of photographs that were commissioned by Queen Victoria to be presented to her husband Prince Albert on his birthday in August 1857. Bedford, accompanied by his wife, travelled to Coburg in June and early July to photograph the places associated with the Prince's childhood.
This is one of a series of photographs that were commissioned by Queen Victoria to be presented to her husband Prince Albert on his birthday in August 1857. Bedford, accompanied by his wife, travelled to Coburg in June and early July to photograph the places associated with the Prince's childhood.
Creator(s)
Francis Bedford (1815-94) (photographer)
18.7 x 24.5 cm (image)
31.5 x 38.5 cm (page dimensions)
- Commissioned by Queen Victoria as a gift for Prince Albert, 1857
Subject(s)
- Places
- Europe
- Germany
- Bavaria [Germany]
- Coburg [Bavaria]
- Ketschendorf [Coburg, Germany]
- Coburg [Bavaria]
- Bavaria [Germany]
- Germany
- Europe
- People
- Men
- Science, Medicine and Technology
- Engineering & Technology
- Vehicles
- Simple transport
- Carriages
- Simple transport
- Vehicles
- Engineering & Technology
- Natural Sciences & Mathematics
- Botany
- Systematic botany
- Trees
- Systematic botany
- Botany
Object type(s)
- visual works
- photographs
- Places
