Glass plate negatives
Albert and Victoria’s collection of glass plate negatives show photographers’ working methods
Group photograph with bust of Prince Albert
Apr 1863Wet collodion negative | RCIN 2082557
Glass plate negative of the royal family posed around a bust of Prince Albert. The photograph features Princess Louise, Alexandra, Princess of Wales, Queen Victoria, Albert Edward, Prince of Wales, Princess Beatrice, Prince Leopold, Princess Alice of Hesse, Princess Helena and Prince Louis of Hesse.
Photograph 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. A print from this negative exists in the Collection, RCIN 2900741.
Creator(s)
John Jabez Edwin Mayall (1813-1901) (photographer)
Subject(s)
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)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 and Prince Albert
Subject(s)
- Arts, Recreation, Entertainment & Sport
- Plastic arts
- Sculpture
- Busts
- Sculpture
- Plastic arts
Object type(s)
- visual works
- photographs
- negatives
- glass plate negatives
- negatives
- photographs
- Arts, Recreation, Entertainment & Sport
