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    QUEEN VICTORIA, QUEEN OF THE UNITED KINGDOM (1819-1901)

    Queen Victoria's Household

    c. 1860

    Green leather bound album with clasp | 8.0 x 6.7 x 2.5 cm (whole object) | RCIN 2117420

    Small dark green leather, embossed album with clasp containing 10 photographs (RCINs 2117421-2117430) of Royal Household staff. A selection of the photographs have been signed by the sitter depicted.

    • Creator(s)

      Queen Victoria, Queen of the United Kingdom (1819-1901) (compiler)

      Prince Albert, Prince Consort (1819-61) (compiler)

      Subject(s)

      Lady Jane Spencer, Baroness Churchill (1826-1900)
      Bernard Bolingbroke Woodward (1816-69)
      Dr Ernst Becker (1826-88)

    • 8.0 x 6.7 x 2.5 cm (whole object)

    • Acquired by Queen Victoria and Prince Albert

    • Subject(s)
      • Arts, Recreation, Entertainment & Sport
        • Photography
          • Photographs
            • Carte-de-visite photographs
      Object type(s)
        • visual works
          • albums
            • photograph albums
          • photographs
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