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Prince Albert's Personal Papers

Papers relating to Prince Albert’s personal life and enthusiasms

LUDWIG GRÜNER (1801-82)

Letter from Ludwig Gruner to Dr. Ernst Becker thanking him for photographs and informing him that he has sent a print of a rare 'Venus' picture to Buckingham Palace for the Prince Consort.

22 - 23 Jul 1858

Loose manuscript paper; mounted | 1 document (4 pages) (whole object) | RA VIC/ADDA10/85/374

Gruner thanks Dr. Becker in his own and Mr Grahl's name for photographs from Windsor, and says that he has also received a photograph of the Lattanzio Gambara. He also informs Becker that he has had delivered to Buckingham Palace the photogalvanographic print of the Venus [on the moss?] of which only 3 examples exist, for the Prince Consort.
  • Creator(s)

    Ludwig Grüner (1801-82) (writer)

    Dr Ernst Becker (1826-88) (addressee)

  • 1 document (4 pages) (whole object)

  • Place of Production
    London [Greater London]
  • Object type(s)
      • printed & manuscript material
        • documents
          • correspondence
    Language(s)
    German