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

JOHN JABEZ EDWIN MAYALL (1813-1901)

Group photograph with bust of Prince Albert

Apr 1863

RCIN 2082686

Glass plate negative of a full length group portrait of the royal family posed around a bust of Prince Albert. The image features, from right to rleft, Princess Louise, Princess Alice of Hesse, Queen Victoria, Prince Louis of Hesse, Princess Beatrice, Albert Edward, Prince of Wales, Alexandra, Princess of Wales, Prince Leopold and Princess Helena. Princess Alexandra holds a framed photograph of Prince Albert.

The photograph was taken following the wedding of Princess Alexandra and Albert Edward, Prince of Wales.

The glass plate negative has been photographed showing the coated side and therefore the image appears laterally reversed. At least one print from this negative exists in the Collection, RCIN 2900743.

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John Jabez Edwin Mayall (1813-1901) (photographer)

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Queen Alexandra of the United Kingdom (1844-1925)

King Edward VII, King of the United Kingdom (1841-1910)

Princess Helena (1846-1923)

Ludwig IV, Grand Duke of Hesse and by Rhine (1837-92)

Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll (1848-1939)

Queen Victoria, Queen of the United Kingdom (1819-1901)

Beatrice, Princess Henry of Battenberg (1857-1944)

Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany (1853-84)

Princess Alice, Grand Duchess of Hesse & by Rhine (1843-78)

Prince Albert, Prince Consort (1819-61)
Acquired by Queen Victoria
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- Arts, Recreation, Entertainment & Sport
  Plastic arts
  Sculpture
  Busts
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Group photograph with bust of Prince Albert

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