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Portraiture

Prince Albert was an early adopter of portrait photography

AFTER GRAHAM VIVIAN (1827-1912)

Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston (1784-1865)

1887 copy after an original of 1857

Carbon print | 17.7 x 13.8 cm (image) | RCIN 2906744

Photograph of a full length portrait of Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston (1784-1865) standing, facing three-quarters to the left. He gazes ahead, away from the camera. He is posed outside on stone steps, and leans his right arm against a stone wall. He holds a hat in his left hand. Taken at Broadlands, the country house of Palmerston, now owned by the Mountbatten of Burma family.
  • Creator(s)

    After Graham Vivian (1827-1912) (photographer)

    Hughes & Mullins (1883-1917) (photographer)

    Subject(s)

    Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston (1784-1865)
  • 17.7 x 13.8 cm (image)

    28.4 x 23.0 cm (page dimensions)

    29.5 x 24.5 x 6.0 cm (album)

  • Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston, 1857 [Photographic Portraits Vol.2/60 1852-1859]

  • Acquired by Queen Victoria and Prince Albert

  • Subject(s)
    • Places
      • Europe
        • Great Britain
          • England
            • Hampshire [England]
              • Romsey [Hampshire]
                • Broadlands [Hampshire]
    Object type(s)
      • visual works
        • photographs
        • albums
          • photograph albums