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Glass plate negatives

Albert and Victoria’s collection of glass plate negatives show photographers’ working methods

FRANCES SALLY DAY (1815-92)

Feodore, Princess Hohenlohe-Langenburg (1807-72)

c. 1859

RCIN 2082718

Glass plate negative featuring two full-length portraits of Feodore, Princess Hohenlohe-Langenburg, half-sister of Queen Victoria. The princess is standing, facing to the right and gazing ahead, away from the camera. She is shown against a wall in the grounds of Osborne House.

The glass plate negative has been photographed showing the coated side and therefore the image appears laterally reversed. A print from the left image exists in the Collection, RCIN 2906437.

  • Creator(s)

    Frances Sally Day (1815-92) (photographer)

    Subject(s)

    Feodora, Princess of Hohenlohe-Langenburg (1807-72)
  • Acquired by Queen Victoria and Prince Albert

  • Subject(s)
    • Places
      • Europe
        • Great Britain
          • England
            • Isle of Wight [England]
              • Osborne Estate [Isle of Wight]
                • Osborne House
    Object type(s)
      • visual works
        • photographs
          • negatives
            • glass plate negatives
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