Memorial works
Following Albert’s premature death, Victoria commissioned the creation of photographs and decorative objects that memorialised her beloved husband
JANE AND MARGARET DAVISON (ACTIVE 1870)
Tablet with border of David: Albert Memorial Chapel, Windsor
1874Carbon print | 17.4 x 20.4 cm (image) | RCIN 2101251
Photograph of a tablet of David showing the central theme of David writing his psalms as he is regaled by a choir of Angels. The tablet has an ornamental border. The tablet features in the Albert Memorial Chapel.
The photograph is accompanied by a caption: 'DAVID. THE tablet of David is here given with its surrounding border, in order to shew the manner which the bas-reliefs are employed. These border, though exquisitely beautiful in design and colour, are unfitted for reproduction by photography, and have therefore been omitted, except in this one instance.'
The photograph is accompanied by a caption: 'DAVID. THE tablet of David is here given with its surrounding border, in order to shew the manner which the bas-reliefs are employed. These border, though exquisitely beautiful in design and colour, are unfitted for reproduction by photography, and have therefore been omitted, except in this one instance.'
Creator(s)
Jane and Margaret Davison (active 1870) (photographer)
17.4 x 20.4 cm (image)
David. Tablet with border. [The Triqueti Marbles in the Albert Memorial Chapel, Windsor]
Acquired by Queen Victoria by 1876
Subject(s)
- Places
- Europe
- Great Britain
- England
- Berkshire [England]
- Windsor [Berkshire]
- Windsor Castle
- Lower Ward [Windsor Castle]
- Albert Memorial Chapel [Windsor Castle]
- Lower Ward [Windsor Castle]
- Windsor Castle
- Windsor [Berkshire]
- Berkshire [England]
- England
- Great Britain
- Europe
- Places
