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Following Albert’s premature death, Victoria commissioned the creation of photographs and decorative objects that memorialised her beloved husband

    LOUIS JOSEPH GHÉMAR (1819-73)

    Queen Victoria and Princess Helena

    c. 1862

    Albumen print | 8.5 x 5.5 cm (image) | RCIN 2149035

    Carte-de-visite photograph of Queen Victoria (1819-1901) dressed in mourning, seated, looking down at a miniature (of Prince Albert?) that she is holding in her right hand; her left arm is around the shoulders of Princess Helena (1846-1923), who kneels by her mother's side, her left hand on the miniature. Princess Helena looks towards the camera.

    • Creator(s)

      Louis Joseph Ghémar (1819-73) (photographer)

      Ghémar Frères (active 1859-94) (photographer)

    • 8.5 x 5.5 cm (image)

    • Subject(s)
      • Social sciences
        • Ethnology
          • Mourning
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