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Photographs 1842-61

Albums compiled by Prince Albert, reflecting his beliefs surrounding photography

    PRINCE ALBERT, PRINCE CONSORT (1819-61)

    Calotypes. Volume II

    c.1860

    Red leather bound album containing salt paper and albumen photographs | 24.9 x 30.7 x 4.7 cm (album) | RCIN 2905882

    Album bound in burgundy leather with gold tooling. The title is in gold on front cover and on spine which has 5 raised bands. All edges of the album are gilt and there is marbled end papers. The album contains photographs (RCINs 2905884-2905992) collected and arranged by Prince Albert (1819-61). The frontispiece (RCIN 2905883) is a note by Prince Albert. 

    • Creator(s)

      Prince Albert, Prince Consort (1819-61) (compiler)

      Dr Ernst Becker (1826-88) (photographer)

      Charles Thurston Thompson (1816-68) (photographer)

      Philip Henry Delamotte (1821-89) (photographer)

      Nicolaas Henneman (1813-98) (photographer)

      Ferrier (photographer)

      Edward Kater (active 1850) (photographer)

      Joseph Cundall (1819-95) (photographer)

      Louis Désiré Blanquart-Evrard (1802-72) (photographer)

      William John Thoms (1803-85) (photographer)

      Roger Fenton (1819-69) (photographer)

      Wenceslas Cifka (active 1852) (photographer)

      Robert MacPherson (1811-72) (photographer)

      Subject(s)

      Frederick Waymouth Gibbs (1821-98)
      John MacDonald (d. 1860)
      Albert van de Weyer (1845-74)
      Victoria Van de Weyer (1841-65)
      Richard I, King of England (1157-99)
      Alexander Mensdorff-Pouilly-Dietrichstein (1813-71)
      Carl Haag (1820-1915)
      Louvre Museum [Paris]
      Luigi Lablache (1794-1858)
      King Edward VII, King of the United Kingdom (1841-1910)
      Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh and Saxe-Coburg & Gotha (1844-1900)
      Queen Victoria, Queen of the United Kingdom (1819-1901)
      Empress Friedrich, German Empress and Queen of Prussia (1840-1901)
      Princess Alice, Grand Duchess of Hesse & by Rhine (1843-78)
      William Stewart
      William Leys
      John Grant (1810-79)
      Zulu
      Prince Arthur, 1st Duke of Connaught (1850-1942)
      Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany (1853-84)
      Princess Helena (1846-1923)
      Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll (1848-1939)
      Victoria, Princess of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, and Duchess of Nemours (1822-57)
      John Brown (1826-83)
      Donald Stewart (1827-1909)

    • 24.9 x 30.7 x 4.7 cm (album)

    • Collected and arranged by Prince Albert

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          • Lace-Making
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            • Lace
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