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Photographs 1842-61

Albums compiled by Prince Albert, reflecting his beliefs surrounding photography

C. DYER : COMPTON STREET, SOHO, LONDON

Miscellanies

c.1853-60

Moroccan leather and blue cloth album | 24.4 x 32.6 cm (album) | RCIN 2932735

Album bound in Moroccan leather with blue cloth front and back covers. Gold tooling and titling on the spine. The titling reads: 'Miscellanies'. Contains 69 albumen photographs (RCINs 2932736 - 2932804) of personalities, rural tableaux and ships.

Following Prince Albert's death in 1861, it is clear Queen Victoria continued to compile photographs into the album.
  • Creator(s)

    C. Dyer : Compton Street, Soho, London (photographer)

    James Good Tunny (1820-87) (photographer)

    André Adolfe Eugène Disdéri (1819-89) (photographer)

    William Bambridge (photographer)

    Oscar Gustav Rejlander (1813-75) (photographer)

    Francis Bedford (1815-94) (photographer)

    Mende (photographer)

    Robert Howlett (1831-58) (photographer)

    William Lake Price (1810-96) (photographer)

    Ferdinand Jean de la Ferté Joubert (1810-84) (photographer)

    Subject(s)

    Great Britain
    Eton College
    Empress Friedrich, German Empress and Queen of Prussia (1840-1901)
    Princess Alice, Grand Duchess of Hesse & by Rhine (1843-78)
    King Edward VII, King of the United Kingdom (1841-1910)
    Resolute (HMS)
    HMY Victoria and Albert I (royal yacht, launched 1843; scrapped 1868)
    Princess Helena (1846-1923)
    SS Great Eastern (steamship, launched 1858; scrapped 1889-90)
    Victoria, Queen of the United Kingdom (1819-1901)
  • 24.4 x 32.6 cm (album)

    23.4 x 30.5 cm (page dimensions)

  • Acquired by Queen Victoria and Prince Albert

  • Subject(s)
    • Places
      • Europe
        • Great Britain
          • England
            • Isle of Wight [England]
              • Osborne Estate [Isle of Wight]
                • Osborne House
              • Whippingham [Isle of Wight]
                • St Mildred's Church [Whippingham]
            • Staffordshire [England]
              • Lichfield [Staffordshire]
            • Berkshire [England]
              • Windsor [Berkshire]
                • Windsor Castle
                  • Upper Ward [Windsor Castle]
                    • Private Apartments [Windsor Castle]
                      • Grand Corridor [Windsor Castle]
            • Greater London [England]
              • London [Greater London]
                • City of Westminster [London]
                  • Hyde Park [London]
                  • Apsley House [London]
            • Kent [England]
              • Ramsgate [Kent]
            • Hampshire [England]
              • Highclere Castle [Highclere Park]
          • Scotland
            • Aberdeenshire [Scotland]
              • Banff [Aberdeenshire]
                • Duff House [Banff]
        • Germany
          • Bavaria [Germany]
            • Coburg [Bavaria]
        • France
          • Alpes-Maritimes [Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur]
            • Cannes [France]
    Object type(s)
      • visual works
        • photographs
        • albums
          • photograph albums