Prince Albert was an early adopter of portrait photography
DR ERNST BECKER (1826-88)
Photograph album featuring Victoria, Duchess of Kent and her family
1854-60Leather bound album | 9.6 x 7.1 x 1.5 cm (album) | RCIN 2513450
Small blue leather bound album with a 'V' cypher stamped in gold leaf on the front cover. The album features photographs of Victoria, Duchess of Kent alone and with members of her family including, Queen Victoria, Prince Albert and their children. A selection of the photographs were taken at Osborne and Buckingham Palace.
The album is inscribed with the birth and death dates of the Duchess of Kent and a phrase in German, translated in English to 'To do good was your aspiration and you were joy and happiness to us'.
The album is inscribed with the birth and death dates of the Duchess of Kent and a phrase in German, translated in English to 'To do good was your aspiration and you were joy and happiness to us'.
Creator(s)
Dr Ernst Becker (1826-88) (photographer)
Messrs. Day (active 1850s-1860s) (photographer)
Subject(s)
Princess Victoria, Duchess of Kent (1786-1861)Prince Albert, Prince Consort (1819-61)Victoria, Queen of the United Kingdom (1819-1901)King Edward VII, King of the United Kingdom (1841-1910)Empress Friedrich, German Empress and Queen of Prussia (1840-1901)Princess Alice, Grand Duchess of Hesse & by Rhine (1843-78)Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh and Saxe-Coburg & Gotha (1844-1900)Princess Helena (1846-1923)Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll (1848-1939)Prince Arthur, 1st Duke of Connaught (1850-1942)Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany (1853-84)9.6 x 7.1 x 1.5 cm (album)
- Acquired by Queen Victoria and Prince Albert
Subject(s)
- Places
- Europe
- Great Britain
- England
- Isle of Wight [England]
- Osborne Estate [Isle of Wight]
- Osborne House
- Osborne Estate [Isle of Wight]
- Isle of Wight [England]
- England
- Great Britain
- Europe
- Arts, Recreation, Entertainment & Sport
- Architecture
- Secular architecture
- Fountains
- Secular architecture
- Architecture
Object type(s)
- visual works
- photographs
- Places
