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Prince Albert was an early adopter of portrait photography

    PRINCE ALBERT, PRINCE CONSORT (1819-61)

    Photographic Portraits Volume 2

    1852-59

    Morocco 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.

    • 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
        • printed & manuscript material
          • books
            • book: half leather bound
              • book: half leather bound in morocco
                • book: half leather bound in black morocco
            • book: binding
              • book: binding with gold tooling
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