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    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

    In July 1854, Queen Victoria commissioned the photographer Bryan Edward Duppa (1804–66) to take a photograph of her, as a suprise for Prince Albert. The Queen is posed holding a framed portrait of Prince Albert taken by Duppa a few months earlier. 

    Likely owing to the photograph's personal significance to the couple, a carbon print copy was later made. 
     

    • The Queen/Do./ by Do. [Ditto]

      Reproduced & Printed in carbon by Mullins 1889

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