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Prince Albert was an early adopter of portrait photography

AFTER BRYAN EDWARD DUPPA (ACTIVE 1832-66)

'The Queen'; Queen Victoria (1819-1901)

1889 copy after an original of 13 Jul 1854

Carbon print | 21.6 x 17.1 cm (image) | RCIN 2906534

Photograph of a three-quarter length portrait of Queen Victoria (1819-1901) seated, facing three-quarters to the right, her face captured in right side profile. She rests a photographic portrait of Prince Albert (1819-61) on her lap. There are flowers positioned beside her. Photograph taken at Buckingham Palace.

  • Creator(s)

    After Bryan Edward Duppa (active 1832-66) (photographer)

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

  • The Queen/Do./ by Do. [Ditto]

    Reproduced & Printed in carbon by Mullins 1889

  • 21.6 x 17.1 cm (image)

    28.2 x 22.9 cm (page dimensions)

  • Queen Victoria, Buckingham Palace, 13 July 1854 [Photographic Portraits Vol.1/59 1853-1857]

  • Commissioned by Queen Victoria

  • Subject(s)
    • Places
      • Europe
        • Great Britain
          • England
            • Greater London [England]
              • London [Greater London]
                • City of Westminster
                  • Buckingham Palace
    • Natural Sciences & Mathematics
      • Botany
        • Systematic botany
          • Flowering plants
            • Daffodils
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