Memorial works
Following Albert’s premature death, Victoria commissioned the creation of photographs and decorative objects that memorialised her beloved husband
AFTER? HILLS & SAUNDERS (1852 TO DATE)
The Queen's Bedroom, Windsor Castle
after a photograph dated c. 1873Albumen print | 6.3 x 8.5 cm (whole object) | RCIN 2418592
Photograph of Queen Victoria's Bedroom, in the Private Apartments, Windsor Castle. The photograph shows a half-tester bed with a knitted square blanket on top, a bedside cabinet with a glass and bell and a sofa with cushions at the foot of the bed. The are pictures on the wall, one of which is a portrait of Princess Ferdinand of Saxe-Coburg (1797-1862) by Cordon (RCIN 407130).
The photograph is in an envelope marked 'One Set of Rooms - (Reduced)'.
The photograph is in an envelope marked 'One Set of Rooms - (Reduced)'.
Creator(s)
After? Hills & Saunders (1852 to date) (photographer) [After a work possibly attributed to Hills & Saunders]
6.3 x 8.5 cm (whole object)
A label on a brass tablet (RCIN 55344) suggests that the photograph was 'always placed on the Queen's writing table'
Subject(s)
- Places
- Europe
- Great Britain
- England
- Berkshire [England]
- Windsor [Berkshire]
- Windsor Castle
- Interiors of Windsor Castle
- Upper Ward [Windsor Castle]
- Private Apartments [Windsor Castle]
- Queen's Bed Room [Private Apartments, Windsor Castle]
- Private Apartments [Windsor Castle]
- Windsor Castle
- Windsor [Berkshire]
- Berkshire [England]
- England
- Great Britain
- Europe
- Science, Medicine and Technology
- Home economics
- The Home
- Bedrooms
- Furniture & accessories
- Beds
- Cabinets (furniture)
- Seating. Chairs
- Seats
- Cushions
- Tableware
- Drinking glasses
- Mending of Clothes at home
- Knitting
- The Home
- Home economics
- Places
