Prince Albert was an early adopter of portrait photography
AFTER ROGER FENTON (1819-69)
'The Prince'; Prince Albert (1819-61)
1889 copy after an original of May 1854Carbon print | 16.3 x 14.5 cm (image) | RCIN 2906511
Photograph of a full length portrait of Prince Albert (1819-61) seated, facing three-quarters to the left. He turns his head to looks towards the camera. He poses with his legs cross and his hands clasped on his right knee. Photograph taken at Buckingham Palace.
Creator(s)
After Roger Fenton (1819-69) (photographer)
Gustav William Henry Mullins (1854-1921) (photographer)
Subject(s)
Prince Albert, Prince Consort (1819-61)annotation: The Prince- May/Buckingham Palace - May 1854/ by Do. [Underneath the photograph]
annotation: Reproduced & Printed in carbon by Mullins 1889 [mount, lower left]
16.3 x 14.5 cm (image)
28.2 x 22.9 cm (page dimensions)
The Prince, Buckingham Palace, May 1854 [Photographic Portraits. Vol 1/59 (1853-1857)]
- Commissioned by Queen Victoria in 1854
Subject(s)
- Places
- Europe
- Great Britain
- England
- Greater London [England]
- London [Greater London]
- City of Westminster [London]
- Buckingham Palace
- City of Westminster [London]
- London [Greater London]
- Greater London [England]
- England
- Great Britain
- Europe
Object type(s)
- visual works
- photographs
- albums
- photograph albums
- Places
