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    LEONIDA CALDESI (1823-91)

    Group Portrait at Buckingham Palace

    Apr 1857

    Albumen print pasted onto card | 15.6 x 19.8 cm (image) | RCIN 2935055

    Photograph of a full length group portrait of seven male subjects. From left to right are Colonel Phipps, Mr.Gibbs, Albert Edward, Prince of Wales, Prince Albert, Baron Stockmar, Dr. Ernst Becker and Baron Ernest Stockmar. Photograph taken at Buckingham Palace.

    • Creator(s)

      Leonida Caldesi (1823-91) (photographer)

      Subject(s)

      Sir Charles Beaumont Phipps (1801-66)
      King Edward VII, King of the United Kingdom (1841-1910)
      Prince Albert, Prince Consort (1819-61)
      Baron Ernest Stockmar (1823-86)
      Baron Christian Friedrich Stockmar (1787-1863)
      Dr Ernst Becker (1826-88)

    • annotation: Buckingham Palace April 1857 [above photograph]

      annotation: Col Phipps. Mr Gibbs. Pce of Wales. Prince Consort. Baron Stockmar. Dr Becker. B. Ernest Stockmar. [beneath photograph]

    • 15.6 x 19.8 cm (image)

      22.6 x 26.7 cm (mount)

    • Acquired by Prince Albert and Queen Victoria

    • Subject(s)
      • Places
        • Europe
          • Great Britain
            • England
              • Greater London [England]
                • London [Greater London]
                  • City of Westminster [London]
                    • Buckingham Palace
      Object type(s)
        • visual works
          • photographs
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