Memorial works
Following Albert’s premature death, Victoria commissioned the creation of photographs and decorative objects that memorialised her beloved husband
WILLIAM BAMBRIDGE
Queen Victoria and Princess Louise, Windsor Castle
Mar 1862Albumen print | 19.7 x 15.2 cm (image) | RCIN 2900544
Photograph of Queen Victoria (1819-1901) seated, facing three-quarters to the right, looking down at a picture of Prince Albert (1819-61), who had died the year before. She holds the picture on her lap with her left hand. She places her right arm around Princess Louise's (1848-1939) shoulders. Princess Louise kneels by her mother's side, also looking at picture. There is a bust of Prince Albert in the background.
Creator(s)
William Bambridge (photographer)
Subject(s)
Prince Albert, Prince Consort (1819-61)Victoria, Queen of the United Kingdom (1819-1901)Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll (1848-1939)19.7 x 15.2 cm (image)
31.0 x 24.7 cm (page dimensions)
Queen Victoria and Princess Louise, Windsor Castle, 1862 [in Portraits of Royal Children Vol.6 1862-1863]
- Acquired by Queen Victoria
Subject(s)
- Social sciences
- Ethnology
- Mourning
- Ethnology
Object type(s)
- visual works
- photographs
- Social sciences
