Portraiture
Prince Albert was an early adopter of portrait photography
PRINCE ALBERT, PRINCE CONSORT (1819-61)
Photographic Portraits Volume 2
1852-59Morocco leather and cloth bound album | 29.5 x 24.5 x 6.0 cm (album) | RCIN 2906641
Black morocco leather album featuring 150 photographic portraits (RCIN 2906642-2906791). The title is impressed in gilt on the spine and front cover. A selection of the photographs have been captioned by Queen Victoria. This is volume two in a set of seven portrait albums.
The album includes photographs that were re-printed in carbon by Hughes and Mullins in the 1880s.
The album includes photographs that were re-printed in carbon by Hughes and Mullins in the 1880s.
Creator(s)
Prince Albert, Prince Consort (1819-61) (compiler)
Victoria, Queen of the United Kingdom (1819-1901) (compiler)
Roger Fenton (1819-69) (photographer)
John Jabez Edwin Mayall (1813-1901) (photographer)
Thomas Pearce (active c. 1850s) (photographer)
Antoine François Jean Claudet (1797-1867) (photographer)
Leonida Caldesi (1823-91) (photographer)
John Frederick Vaughan Campbell, 2nd Earl Cawdor (1817-98) (photographer)
29.5 x 24.5 x 6.0 cm (album)
28.4 x 23.0 cm (page dimensions)
Photographic Portraits Vol.2/60 1852-1859
- Acquired by Queen Victoria and Prince Albert
Object type(s)
- visual works
- albums
- photograph albums
- albums
- printed & manuscript material
- books
- book: half leather bound
- book: half leather bound in morocco
- book: half leather bound in black morocco
- book: half leather bound in morocco
- book: binding
- book: binding with gold tooling
- book: half leather bound
- books
- visual works
