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Prince Albert was an early adopter of portrait photography

    PRINCE ALBERT, PRINCE CONSORT (1819-61)

    Photographic Portraits Volume 3

    1856-63

    Maroon leather and cloth bound album | 29.5 x 25.0 x 5.0 cm (album) | RCIN 2906792

    Album bound in maroon cloth with leather spine and gilt lettering. Album features photographic portraits (RCINs 2906793-2906951) taken between 1856 and 1863. This album is volume three in a set of seven portrait albums. A selection of portraits have been captioned by Queen Victoria (1819-1901).

    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)

      William Bambridge (photographer)

      Frances Elizabeth Jocelyn, Viscountess Jocelyn (1820-80) (photographer)

      Sir George Tryon (1832-93) (photographer)

      Camille Silvy (1834-1910) (photographer)

      John Jabez Edwin Mayall (1813-1901) (photographer)

      Lord Charles Montagu-Douglas-Scott (1839-1911) (photographer)

      Graham Vivian (1827-1912) (photographer)

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

    • 29.5 x 25.0 x 5.0 cm (album)

      28.4 x 23.0 cm (page dimensions)

    • Acquired by Queen Victoria and Prince Albert

    • Object type(s)
        • visual works
          • albums
            • photograph albums
          • photographs
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