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Prince Albert was an early adopter of portrait photography

AFTER RUPPRECHT

Ernest I, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha

dated 1820

Stipple engraving | 18.5 x 12.3 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 2506482

An engraving from an album of portraits containing prints and photographs: after a portrait painting of Ernst I, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha; bust length, turned to the left; wearing a military tunic with decorations; in an oval; dated on the mount, lower right.

  • Creator(s)

    After Rupprecht (artist)

    Frederick Fleischmann (1791-1834) (engraver)

  • 18.5 x 12.3 cm (sheet of paper)

  • Ernst, regierender Herzog von Sachsen-Coburg-Saalfeld

  • From an album compiled by Queen Victoria and Prince Albert

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