Memorial works
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 | 15.3 x 13.4 cm (image) | RCIN 2900549
Photograph of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert's daughters grouped around bust of their father. The daughters are arranged, from left to right: Princess Alice, Princess Helena, Princess Beatrice, Princess Victoria of Prussia and Princess Louise.
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 Helena (1846-1923)Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll (1848-1939)Beatrice, Princess Henry of Battenberg (1857-1944)Prince Albert, Prince Consort (1819-61)15.3 x 13.4 cm (image)
31.0 x 24.7 cm (page dimensions)
Group, 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
