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Portraiture

Prince Albert was an early adopter of portrait photography

DUDLEY CHARLES FITZGERALD, 24TH BARON DE ROS (1827-1907)

Group portrait with pony

Aug 1860

Carbon print | 10.0 x 14.4 cm (image) | RCIN 2900375

Photograph of a full length group portrait of, from left to right, John Brown, Princess Alice, Prince Leopold seated on the pony 'Topsy', Princess Louise, Princess Helena and Madame Hocede Hocédé. Photograph taken at Balmoral.
  • Creator(s)

    Dudley Charles Fitzgerald, 24th Baron de Ros (1827-1907) (photographer)

    Subject(s)

    Princess Alice, Grand Duchess of Hesse & by Rhine (1843-78)
    Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll (1848-1939)
    Princess Helena (1846-1923)
    Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany (1853-84)
    John Brown (1826-83)
    Maria Hocédé (d. c. 1901)
  • annotation: Princefs Alice, Prince Leopold, Princefs Louise & Princefs Helena, with Mme Hocédé./ J. Brown holding the pony "Topsy"/ Balmoral. Aug 1860. [beneath work]

  • 10.0 x 14.4 cm (image)

    31.0 x 24.7 cm (page dimensions)

  • Acquired by Queen Victoria and Prince Albert

  • Subject(s)
    • Social sciences
      • Ethnology
        • Costume & National dress
          • Costume-Great Britain
            • Costume-Scotland
              • Scottish Highland Dress
    • Places
      • Europe
        • Great Britain
          • Scotland
            • Aberdeenshire [Scotland]
              • Balmoral Estate [Aberdeenshire]
    • Science, Medicine and Technology
      • Agriculture and related techniques
        • Animal husbandry
          • Horses
            • Ponies
              • Topsy (Prince Arthur's Pony)
    Object type(s)
      • visual works
        • photographs