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 Red (King's) Room, Windsor Castle
copy after a photograph dated c. 1873Albumen print | 6.7 x 8.5 cm (whole object) | RCIN 2418588
Photograph of the Red (King's) Room in the Private Apartments, Windsor Castle. On the left is a table covered in a heavy cloth, chairs, paisley-covered settees, and vases on a cabinet at the back. The open door leads to further rooms. To the right is a French boulle table, a chair, a vase on a pedestal. The wall-hangings and curtains are as created for King George IV about 1829, a striped pattern of alternating medallions and leafy bands.
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]
6.7 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
- Windsor Castle
- Windsor [Berkshire]
- Berkshire [England]
- England
- Great Britain
- Europe
- Science, Medicine and Technology
- Home economics
- Furniture & accessories
- Tables
- Seating. Chairs
- Chairs
- Settees
- Furniture & accessories
- Engineering & Technology
- Packaging
- Containers
- Vessels (containers)
- Vases
- Vessels (containers)
- Containers
- Packaging
- Construction
- Structural parts of buildings
- Doors
- Structural parts of buildings
- Home economics
- Arts, Recreation, Entertainment & Sport
- Architecture
- Architectural design
- Architectural decoration & motifs
- Pedestals
- Architectural decoration & motifs
- Architectural design
- Architecture
- Places
