Landscape, Nature and Architecture
Technological improvements enabled Prince Albert to collect photographs of places that were significant to him
Photographs of Gotha
1858Blue leather album containing albumen prints | 32.3 x 41.3 x 5.7 cm (album) (album) | RCIN 2102917
Blue leather album containing photographs (RCINs 2102918 - 2102980 and 2102876) of Gotha and the surrounding area by Francis Bedford. Photographs of Gotha is embossed in gold on the spine and there is marbled paper on the inside cover.
Knowing of Prince Albert's love for his old home, Queen Victoria commissioned a set of photographs of Gotha to be given to Prince Albert as a birthday present on 26 August 1858. They were to accompany the set of Coburg photographs she had given him for his birthday the year before. According to the Queen's journal, Prince Albert was 'particularly delighted' with them.
Creator(s)
Francis Bedford (1815-94) (photographer)
32.3 x 41.3 x 5.7 cm (album) (album)
Commissioned by Queen Victoria in 1858 as a birthday present for Prince Albert
Subject(s)
- Places
- Europe
- Germany
- Thuringia [Germany]
- Gotha [Thuringia]
- Schloss Friedenstein [Gotha]
- Schloss Friedrichsthal [Gotha]
- Friedrichroda [Gotha]
- Schloss Reinhardsbrunn [Friedrichroda]
- Schwartzwald [Germany]
- Erfurt [Germany]
- Schloss Molsdorf [Germany]
- Schnepfenthal [Germany]
- Waltershausen [Germany]
- Schloss Tenneberg [Waltershausen]
- Oberhof [Germany]
- Falkenstein [Thuringia]
- Gotha [Thuringia]
- Bavaria [Germany]
- Triefenstein [Germany]
- Thuringian Forest [Germany]
- Thuringia [Germany]
- Germany
- Europe
Object type(s)
- visual works
- albums
- photograph albums
- albums
- Places
