Following Albert’s premature death, Victoria commissioned the creation of photographs and decorative objects that memorialised her beloved husband
? HILLS & SAUNDERS (1852-2019)
Windsor and Frogmore 1861 and 1862
1861-63Moroccan bound album with albumen prints | 9.7 x 7.0 x 1.2 cm (album) | RCIN 2513473
Photograph album bound in morocco leather featuring albumen prints of the interiors of Windsor Castle and Frogmore House to show rooms that had been occupied by Prince Albert (1819-61). The album includes photographs of the construction of the Royal Mausoleum and Prince Albert's effigy. A selection of pages feature annotations underneath the photographs in Queen Victoria's (1819-1901) hand.
On the first page of the album, Queen Victoria has written:
''Dear rooms of the happiest past and the most horrible reality.
Victoria.
1863'
Creator(s)
? Hills & Saunders (1852-2019) (photographer)
Queen Victoria, Queen of the United Kingdom (1819-1901) (compiler)
Subject(s)
Prince Albert, Prince Consort (1819-61)9.7 x 7.0 x 1.2 cm (album)
- Album compiled by Queen Victoria
Subject(s)
- Places
- Europe
- Great Britain
- England
- Berkshire [England]
- Windsor [Berkshire]
- Windsor Home Park
- Frogmore Estate [Windsor Home Park]
- Frogmore House
- Interiors [Frogmore House, Windsor Home Park]
- Royal Mausoleum [Frogmore Estate]
- Frogmore House
- Frogmore Estate [Windsor Home Park]
- Windsor Castle
- Upper Ward [Windsor Castle]
- Private Apartments [Windsor Castle]
- Duke of Edinburgh Writing Room [Windsor Castle]
- Private Apartments [Windsor Castle]
- Upper Ward [Windsor Castle]
- Windsor Home Park
- Windsor [Berkshire]
- Berkshire [England]
- England
- Great Britain
- Europe
- Arts, Recreation, Entertainment & Sport
- Architecture
- Ecclesiastical & religious architecture
- Funerary architecture
- Funerary monuments
- Funerary architecture
- Ecclesiastical & religious architecture
- Architecture
Object type(s)
- visual works
- albums
- photograph albums
- photographs
- albums
- Places
