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Photographs 1842-61

Albums compiled by Prince Albert, reflecting his beliefs surrounding photography

    PRINCE ALBERT, PRINCE CONSORT (1819-61)

    Photographs. Volume II

    1850-55

    Leather bound album | 18.3 x 14.3 cm (whole object) | RCIN 2800688

    Small leather-bound volume with gold tooling, containing photographs (RCINs 2800689-2800756) of a variety of subjects including paintings in the Royal Collection, portraits, stags shot, Crimean soldiers and cloud studies at Brighton

    The spine shows the album title in gold and has five raised bands. The first page is inscribed, 'All the Photographs in this Volume were collected and arranged by His Royal Highness The Prince Consort'.

    • Creator(s)

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

      Joseph Cundall (1819-95) (photographer)

      William Bambridge (photographer)

      Wilson & Hay (active 1853-55) (photographer)

      George Washington Wilson (1823-93) (photographer)

      Antoine François Jean Claudet (1797-1867) (photographer)

      Édouard Baldus (1813-89) (photographer)

      Duleep Singh (1838-93) (photographer)

      Dr Hugh Welch Diamond (1809-86) (photographer)

      Thomas Hennah (1826-76) (photographer)

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

      Lady Cecilia Foley (1786-1863) (photographer)

      Subject(s)

      Lord Alfred Paget (1816-88)
      Charles John Canning, 1st Earl Canning (1812-62)
      Sir George de Lacy Evans (1787-1870)
      Henry Hardinge, 1st Viscount Hardinge of Lahore (1785-1856)

    • 18.3 x 14.3 cm (whole object)

    • Collected and arranged by Prince Albert

    • Object type(s)
        • visual works
          • albums
            • photograph albums
          • photographs
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