Landscape, Nature and Architecture
Technological improvements enabled Prince Albert to collect photographs of places that were significant to him
DR ERNST BECKER (1826-88)
Stag shot by the Prince in twilight on the Danseck
Salted paper print | 8.1 x 9.5 cm (image) | RCIN 2116987
Photograph of a stag shot by Prince Albert (1819-61) on the Danseck. The caption indicates the stag weighed 17 stone and 3 pounds and was shot at twilight. The photograph is labelled as an 'Inperfect calotype'.
Creator(s)
Dr Ernst Becker (1826-88) (photographer)
annotation: Stag shot by the Prince in twilight on the Danseck/ near the road (V. R. there)/ (Head stuffed in sitting room old house.) weighed 17 stone 3 lbs/ clean.)/ Inperfect calotype by Dr Becker. [break] Oct: 4th 1852.- [beneath work]
8.1 x 9.5 cm (image)
- 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)
- Red deer
- Deer
- Mammals
- Animals
- Zoology
- Biological sciences
- Science, Medicine and Technology
- Agriculture and related techniques
- Animal husbandry
- Field sports (hunting, shooting, stalking)
- Hunting methods
- Stalking
- Hunting methods
- Field sports (hunting, shooting, stalking)
- Animal husbandry
- Agriculture and related techniques
- Places
- Europe
- Great Britain
- Scotland
- Aberdeenshire [Scotland]
- Balmoral Estate [Aberdeenshire]
- Aberdeenshire [Scotland]
- Scotland
- Great Britain
- Europe
Object type(s)
- visual works
- photographs
- Natural Sciences & Mathematics
