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Following Albert’s premature death, Victoria commissioned the creation of photographs and decorative objects that memorialised her beloved husband

    WILLIAM BAMBRIDGE (1819-79)

    The royal children in mourning

    Mar 1862

    Albumen print | 14.5 x 11.9 cm (image) | RCIN 2900550

    Photograph howing some of the children of Prince Albert and Queen Victoria posed around a bust of Prince Albert. The children are arranged, from left ro right, Prince Alfred, Princess Alice, Princess Louise, Princess Victoria of Prussia and Princess Helena.

    • Creator(s)

      William Bambridge (1819-79) (photographer)

      Subject(s)

      Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh and Saxe-Coburg & Gotha (1844-1900)
      Princess Alice, Grand Duchess of Hesse & by Rhine (1843-78)
      Princess Helena (1846-1923)
      Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll (1848-1939)
      Prince Albert, Prince Consort (1819-61)
      Empress Friedrich, German Empress and Queen of Prussia (1840-1901)

    • 14.5 x 11.9 cm (image)

      31.0 x 24.7 cm (page dimensions)

    • Prince Alfred, Princess Alice, Princess Louise, the Crown Princess of Prussia and Princess Helena, 1862 [in Portraits of Royal Children Vol.6 1862-1863]

    • Acquired by Queen Victoria

    • Subject(s)
      • Social sciences
        • Ethnology
          • Mourning
      Object type(s)
        • visual works
          • photographs
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