Landscape, Nature and Architecture
Technological improvements enabled Prince Albert to collect photographs of places that were significant to him
'Lieveley'
Jun 1854Jul 1854Albumen print | 15.4 x 20.6 cm (image) | RCIN 2510487
Photograph of a general view of Lieveley, now known as Godhavn on the south west coast of Disko Island off Greenland. The scene shows a cluster of houses in the background. The foreground is dominated by rocky outcrops set amongst moorland.
Edward Augustus Inglefield departed Holsteinborg on the 17th June 1854 and arrived at Lievely on the 18th June on his way north to re-supply Sir Edward Belcher's expedition in search of the fate of Sir John Franklin.
Creator(s)
Sir Edward Augustus Inglefield (1820-94) (photographer)
15.4 x 20.6 cm (image)
Lieveley, Greenland, 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
- Arctic territories
- Greenland
- Disko [Greenland]
- Qeqertarsuaq [Disko, Greenland]
- Disko [Greenland]
- Arctic regions
- Greenland
- Arctic territories
- Places
