Portraiture
Prince Albert was an early adopter of portrait photography
UNKNOWN PERSON
Victoria, Princess Royal, later Empress of Germany (1840-1901), on her wedding day
c.1858-60Hand-painted photograph | 16.4 x 12.0 cm (image) | RCIN 2374648
Photograph of a three-quarter length portrait of Victoria, Princess Royal, later Empress of Germany (1840-1901), seated, facing three-quarters to the left. She looks ahead, away from the camera. She poses with her hands held together on her lap. The Princess is wearing her wedding dress and veil as the photograph was taken on her wedding day.
The photograph is hand-coloured with paint.
The photograph is hand-coloured with paint.
Creator(s)
Unknown Person (photographer)
Subject(s)
Empress Friedrich, German Empress and Queen of Prussia (1840-1901)16.4 x 12.0 cm (image)
19.0 x 14.7 cm (mount)
- Acquired by Queen Victoria and Prince Albert
Subject(s)
- Social sciences
- Ethnology
- Social customs
- Marriage
- Wedding Ceremonial Costume
- Wedding dresses
- Wedding Ceremonial Costume
- Marriage
- Social customs
- Ethnology
- Natural Sciences & Mathematics
- Botany
- Systematic botany
- Flowering plants
- Systematic botany
- Botany
- Social sciences
