Landscape, Nature and Architecture
Technological improvements enabled Prince Albert to collect photographs of places that were significant to him
AFTER ÉDOUARD BALDUS (1813-89)
Train Royal
1890 copy after original of 1855Carbon print after salted paper print original | 24.3 x 32.3 cm (whole object) | RCIN 2584460
Photograph of the Royal Train, probably in Paris. Apartments in background behind railway wall. A man stands to right, next to a post, by the end of the train.
This photograph is part of an album of prints presented to Queen Victoria and Prince Albert as a memento of their state visit to France from 18-27 August 1855. The album shows landmarks on the route of the Chemin de Fer du Nord, by which they travelled between Boulogne and Paris.
Creator(s)
After Édouard Baldus (1813-89) (photographer)
Gustav William Henry Mullins (1854-1921) (photographer)
24.3 x 32.3 cm (whole object)
- Presented to Queen Victoria and Prince Albert
Subject(s)
- Geography
- Travels & exploration
- Royal visits & tours
- Royal visits & tours-France
- Royal visits & tours-France 1855
- Royal visits & tours-France
- Royal visits & tours
- Travels & exploration
- Paris [France]
- Science, Medicine and Technology
- Engineering & Technology
- Railways
- Railway trains
- Steam engines (railways)
- Railway trains
- Railways
- Engineering & Technology
- Geography
