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Prince Albert was an early adopter of portrait photography

AFTER SIR WILLIAM ROSS (1794-1860)

Prince Arthur

dated 1851

Lithograph | 24.5 x 19.5 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 2506516

A lithograph from an album of portraits containing prints and photographs: Prince Arthur as a baby; full length, facing front; wearing a frock and bonnet, and holding a rattle in his right hand. Inscribed and dated on the mount below. After a watercolour by Sir William Ross: RCIN 913829.

  • Creator(s)

    After Sir William Ross (1794-1860) (designer)

    ? Thomas Fairland (c. 1804-1852) (lithographer)

    Subject(s)

    Prince Arthur, 1st Duke of Connaught (1850-1942)

  • 24.5 x 19.5 cm (sheet of paper)

  • From an album compiled by Queen Victoria and Prince Albert

  • Subject(s)
    • Natural Sciences & Mathematics
      • Biological sciences
        • Zoology
          • Animals
            • Mammals
              • Humans
                • Babies (human)
    Object type(s)
      • visual works
        • photographs
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