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Portraiture

Prince Albert was an early adopter of portrait photography

DR ERNST BECKER (1826-88)

Group  portrait on the Terrace, Osborne

Aug 1857

Salted paper print | 15.5 x 19.6 cm (image) | RCIN 2906656

Photograph taken on the terrace at Osborne, Isle of Wight. The portrait includes, from left to right, Honourable Beatrice Byng (1826-84), Colonel Thomas Biddulph (1809-78), Colonel Honourable Dudley de Ros (1827-1907), an unknown female and male sitter and the Honourable Emily Cathcart (1834-1917).
  • Creator(s)

    Dr Ernst Becker (1826-88) (photographer)

    Subject(s)

    Beatrice Eliza Christiana Catherine Blundell-Hollinshead-Blundell (1825-84)
    General Sir Thomas Myddelton Biddulph (1809-78)
    Dudley Charles Fitzgerald, 24th Baron de Ros (1827-1907)
    Emily Sarah Cathcart (1834-1917)
  • 15.5 x 19.6 cm (image)

    28.4 x 23.0 cm (page dimensions)

    29.5 x 24.5 x 6.0 cm (album)

  • Group on the Terrace, Osborne [1857] [Photographic Portraits Vol.2/60 1852-1859]

  • Acquired by Queen Victoria and Prince Albert

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