Landscape, Nature and Architecture
Technological improvements enabled Prince Albert to collect photographs of places that were significant to him
FRANCIS BEDFORD (1815-94)
'Schwartzwald'
1858Albumen print | 19.0 x 23.7 cm (image) (image) | RCIN 2102971
Photograph of Schwartzwald, a small village near Gotha. A road runs through the village and there are wooden buildings to the right. Beyond the village there are mountains covered by trees.
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.
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)
19.0 x 23.7 cm (image) (image)
31.5 x 38.5 cm (page dimensions)
Commissioned by Queen Victoria in 1858 as a birthday present for Prince Albert
Subject(s)
- Places
- Europe
- Germany
- Thuringia [Germany]
- Gotha [Thuringia]
- Schwartzwald [Germany]
- Gotha [Thuringia]
- Thuringia [Germany]
- Germany
- Europe
- Arts, Recreation, Entertainment & Sport
- Architecture
- Buildings
- Architecture
- Natural Sciences & Mathematics
- Botany
- Systematic botany
- Trees
- Systematic botany
- Botany
- Geography
- Physiography
- Mountains
- Physiography
Object type(s)
- visual works
- photographs
- Places
