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Prince Albert was an early adopter of portrait photography

AFTER ROGER FENTON (1819-69)

'Princess Mary of Cambridge'

1889 copy after an original of March 1854

Carbon print | 6.4 x 5.3 cm (image) | RCIN 2906510

Photograph of a head and shoulder length portrait of Princess Mary Adelaide of Cambridge (1833-97), facing three-quarters to the right. She turns her head slightly towards the camera and gazes ahead, away from the camera. Photograph taken at Buckingham Palace.

  • Creator(s)

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    After Roger Fenton (1819-69) (photographer)

    Gustav William Henry Mullins (1854-1921) (photographer)

  • Princess Mary of Cambridge / Buckingham Palace - March 1854. by Mr Fenton

    Reproduced & Printed in carbon by Mullins 1889

  • 6.4 x 5.3 cm (image)

    28.2 x 22.9 cm (page dimensions)

  • Princess Mary of Cambridge, Buckingham Palace, March 1854 [Photographic Portraits. Vol 1/59 (1853-1857)]

  • Acquired by Queen Victoria and Prince Albert

  • Subject(s)
    • Places
      • Europe
        • Great Britain
          • England
            • Greater London [England]
              • London [Greater London]
                • City of Westminster
                  • Buckingham Palace
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