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Landscape, Nature and Architecture

Technological improvements enabled Prince Albert to collect photographs of places that were significant to him

SIR EDWARD AUGUSTUS INGLEFIELD (1820-94)

The Governor of Holsteinsborg, Jorgen Nielsen Møller (1801-62) : 'M.Moller'

Jun 1854

Albumen print | 15.5 x 13.0 cm (image) | RCIN 2510467

Photograph of a half length portrait of Jorgen Nielsen Moller, Governor of Holsteinborg, seated and facing the viewer. He smokes a hookah which he holds in his right hand. He wears a peaked cap with an emblem in the centre band.
  • Creator(s)

    Sir Edward Augustus Inglefield (1820-94) (photographer)

    Subject(s)

    Jorgen Nielsen Moller (1801-62)
  • 15.5 x 13.0 cm (image)

  • M. Moller [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
      • Polar regions
        • Arctic territories
          • Arctic regions
          • Greenland [Denmark]
    Object type(s)
      • visual works
        • photographs