Portraiture
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Queen Victoria with her four eldest children
c.1880 copy of original dated 8 Feb 1854Carbon print | 21.9 x 19.7 cm (image) | RCIN 2900013
Photograph of Queen Victoria, seated and wearing a checked shawl over her shoulders. She is surrounded by her four eldest children, from left to right, Prince Albert Edward, Prince of Wales, Princess Victoria, The Princess Royal, Princess Alice (seated next to her mother) and Prince Alfred, on the right hand side.
Creator(s)
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Roger Fenton (1819-69) (photographer)
The Prince of Wales, Princess Royal, Princess Alice, The Queen and Prince Alfred./ 8th February 1854./ By Mr Fenton.
21.9 x 19.7 cm (image)
The Prince of Wales, the Princess Royal, Princess Alice, The Queen, and Prince Alfred, 1854 [from Portraits of Royal Children: Vol.1 1848-1854]
Commissioned by Queen Victoria