Memorial works
Following Albert’s premature death, Victoria commissioned the creation of photographs and decorative objects that memorialised her beloved husband
Group portrait featuring Queen Victoria and her family arranged around a bust of Prince Albert
Apr 1863Albumen photographic print pasted onto card | 8.6 x 6.0 cm (image) | RCIN 2106580
Photograph of a group portrait of the royal family posed around a bust of Prince Albert. The family are arranged, from left to right, Princess Louise, Princess Alice of Hesse, Queen Victoria, Prince Louis of Hesse, Princess Beatrice, Albert Edward, Prince of Wales, Alexandra, Princess of Wales, Prince Leopold and Princess Helena. Princess Alexandra holds a photograph of Prince Albert.
The photograph was taken following the wedding of Princess Alexandra and Albert Edward, Prince of Wales.
Creator(s)
John Jabez Edwin Mayall (1813-1901) (photographer)
Subject(s)
Victoria, Queen of the United Kingdom (1819-1901)King Edward VII, King of the United Kingdom (1841-1910)Queen Alexandra of the United Kingdom (1844-1925)Princess Alice, Grand Duchess of Hesse & by Rhine (1843-78)Ludwig IV, Grand Duke of Hesse and by Rhine (1837-92)Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany (1853-84)Princess Helena (1846-1923)Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll (1848-1939)Beatrice, Princess Henry of Battenberg (1857-1944)Family of Queen Victoria, Queen of the United Kingdom8.6 x 6.0 cm (image)
32.2 x 26.0 cm (mount)
Wales Family Photographs Volume 1 (no. 89-123)
- Acquired by Queen Victoria
Subject(s)
- Social sciences
- Ethnology
- Mourning
- Ethnology
- Arts, Recreation, Entertainment & Sport
- Plastic arts
- Sculpture
- Busts
- Sculpture
- Plastic arts
Object type(s)
- visual works
- photographs
- Social sciences
