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

    ROGER FENTON (1819-69)

    View from the W[est] side of Balmoral Castle looking up the valley. Taken further from the Castle.

    Sep 1854

    Salted paper print | 22.3 x 28.5 cm (image) | RCIN 2140239

    Photograph of the west side of Balmoral Castle with the gardens in the foreground. Trees stand on both the left and the right side. Hills in the background.

    • Creator(s)

      Roger Fenton (1819-69) (photographer)

    • 22.3 x 28.5 cm (image)

      33.9 x 46.1 cm (page dimensions)

    • Windsor Castle Etc.

    • Acquired by Queen Victoria and Prince Albert

    • Subject(s)
      • Places
        • Europe
          • Great Britain
            • Scotland
              • Aberdeenshire [Scotland]
                • Balmoral Estate [Aberdeenshire]
      • Natural Sciences & Mathematics
        • Botany
          • Systematic botany
            • Grasses
              • Grass
            • Trees
      • Geography
        • Physiography
          • Hills
      Object type(s)
        • visual works
          • photographs
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