Memorial works
Following Albert’s premature death, Victoria commissioned the creation of photographs and decorative objects that memorialised her beloved husband
AFTER GEORGE WASHINGTON WILSON (1823-93)
Firs at the Linn of Dee - Braemar
1883 after an 1866 originalCarbon print | 8.8 x 5.6 cm (image) | RCIN 2620030
Photograph of two fir trees standing side by side on a piece of ground that slopes up towards the right. More trees stand in the background.
This photograph is a later carbon copy of the original albumen photograph. Carbon was a process that was less susceptible to fading, unlike an albumen print that is prone to discolouration over time.
Creator(s)
After George Washington Wilson (1823-93) (photographer)
Jabez Hughes (1819-84) (photographer)
8.8 x 5.6 cm (image)
17.5 x 13.2 cm (whole object)
- Acquired by Queen Victoria
Subject(s)
- Places
- Europe
- Great Britain
- Scotland
- Aberdeenshire [Scotland]
- Linn of Dee [Aberdeenshire]
- Aberdeenshire [Scotland]
- Scotland
- Great Britain
- Europe
- Natural Sciences & Mathematics
- Botany
- Systematic botany
- Trees
- Firs
- Coniferous trees
- Trees
- Systematic botany
- Botany
Object type(s)
- visual works
- photographs
- Places
