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    DR ERNST BECKER (1826-88)

    Stags; Volume 1

    1850-58

    Leather and textile bound album | 18.5 x 22.5 x 4.0 cm (whole object) | RCIN 2116979

    Black leather and green textile bound album containing 71 pages of photographs (RCINs 2116980-2117012)  and drawings (RCINs 980545-980578) of stags shot by Prince Albert (1819-61). The title 'Stags' is in gold on the front cover.

    The volume contains also one loose sheet of handwritten notes noting the location of when and where the stags were shot and the location of the deer mount.

    • Creator(s)

      Dr Ernst Becker (1826-88) (photographer)

      Queen Victoria, Queen of the United Kingdom (1819-1901) (artist)

    • 18.5 x 22.5 x 4.0 cm (whole object)

    • From the collection of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert

    • Subject(s)
      • Natural Sciences & Mathematics
        • Biological sciences
          • Zoology
            • Animals
              • Mammals
                • Deer
                  • Red deer
                    • Stags (male deer)
      • Places
        • Europe
          • Great Britain
            • Scotland
              • Aberdeenshire [Scotland]
                • Balmoral Estate [Aberdeenshire]
            • England
              • Berkshire [England]
                • Windsor [Berkshire]
                  • Windsor Great Park [Windsor]
      Object type(s)
        • visual works
          • photographs
          • albums
            • photograph albums
          • drawings/watercolours
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