Following Albert’s premature death, Victoria commissioned the creation of photographs and decorative objects that memorialised her beloved husband
WILLIAM BAMBRIDGE
The royal children in mourning
Mar 1862Albumen print | 15.0 x 13.6 cm (image) | RCIN 2900548
Photograph of Queen Victoria's and Prince Albert's daughters grouped around a bust of their father. The daughters are arranged, from left to right, Princess Alice, Princess Louise, Princess Beatrice, Princess Victoria of Prussia and Princess Helena.
Creator(s)
William Bambridge (photographer)
Subject(s)
Empress Friedrich, German Empress and Queen of Prussia (1840-1901)Princess Alice, Grand Duchess of Hesse & by Rhine (1843-78)Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll (1848-1939)Princess Helena (1846-1923)Beatrice, Princess Henry of Battenberg (1857-1944)Prince Albert, Prince Consort (1819-61)15.0 x 13.6 cm (image)
31.0 x 24.7 cm (page dimensions)
Group photograph, Windsor Castle, 1862 [in Portraits of Royal Children Vol.6 1862-1863]
- Acquired by Queen Victoria
Subject(s)
- Social sciences
- Ethnology
- Mourning
- Ethnology
- 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
Object type(s)
- visual works
- photographs
- Social sciences
