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Portraiture

Prince Albert was an early adopter of portrait photography

PRINCE ALBERT, PRINCE CONSORT (1819-61)

Photographic Portraits Volume 1

1853-57

Leather and cloth bound album | 29.5 x 24.5 x 6.2 cm (album) | RCIN 2906500

Album bound in half black morocco leather featuring photographic portraits (RCINs 2906501-2906640). The title is impressed in gilt on the spine and front cover. Many of the photographs are 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)

    Wilson & Hay (active 1853-55) (photographer)

    Lady Catherine Julia Vernon-Harcourt (1811-77) (photographer)

    George Washington Wilson (1823-93) (photographer)

    William Bambridge (photographer)

    Antoine François Jean Claudet (1797-1867) (photographer)

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

    Leonida Caldesi (1823-91) (photographer)

    Thomas Richard Williams (1825-71) (photographer)

    Roger Fenton (1819-69) (photographer)

    Roger Fenton (1819-69) (photographer)

  • 29.5 x 24.5 x 6.2 cm (album)

  • Photographic Portraits. Vol 1/59 (1853-1857): album binding

  • Acquired by Queen Victoria and Prince Albert

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