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 | 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 (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
- Ethnology
Object type(s)
- visual works
- photographs
- Social sciences
