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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 (1819-79) (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 [Eton]
      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)
      Queen 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]
                • Chateau St Visule [Cannes]
      Object type(s)
        • visual works
          • photographs
          • albums
            • photograph albums
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