Albums compiled by Prince Albert, reflecting his beliefs surrounding photography
PRINCE ALBERT, PRINCE CONSORT (1819-61)
Photographs. Volume V.
1855-69Leather-bound album | 18.0 x 14.3 cm (whole object) | RCIN 2800823
Maroon leather-bound album with title and decorative lines in gilt. The album contains photographs (RCINs 2800824-2800870) of a variety of subject matter including portraits by Camille Silvy, HMS Euryalus in Funchal Bay, 1860, portraits of Miss Eliza Seymour as Fortitude and Lady Spencer as Faith (16 March 1861), portraits of the children of the Emperor of Austria and a potrait of Prince Alamayu, son of Tewodros II, Emperor of Abyssinia, with Captain Speedy. Many of the photographs were reproduced in carbon in 1883 by Hughes.
The first page is inscribed, 'All the Photographs in this Volume as far as Page10 were collected and arranged by His Royal Highness The Prince Consort 1860-61'.
The first page is inscribed, 'All the Photographs in this Volume as far as Page10 were collected and arranged by His Royal Highness The Prince Consort 1860-61'.
Creator(s)
Prince Albert, Prince Consort (1819-61) (compiler)
Queen Victoria, Queen of the United Kingdom (1819-1901) (compiler)
Oscar Gustav Rejlander (1813-75) (photographer)
George Washington Wilson (1823-93) (photographer)
Camille Silvy (1834-1910) (photographer)
Jabez Hughes (1819-84) (photographer)
Subject(s)
Alamayu, Prince of Abyssinia (1861-1879)Prince Albert, Prince Consort (1819-61)18.0 x 14.3 cm (whole object)
- Collected and arranged by Prince Albert, and by Queen Victoria after 1861
Subject(s)
- Places
- Europe
- Great Britain
- England
- Isle of Wight [England]
- Whippingham [Isle of Wight]
- St Mildred's Church [Whippingham]
- Whippingham [Isle of Wight]
- Isle of Wight [England]
- England
- Great Britain
- Europe
Object type(s)
- visual works
- albums
- photograph albums
- photographs
- albums
- Places
