Albert and Victoria’s collection of glass plate negatives show photographers’ working methods
'Group portrait at Gloucester House'
after an original of 30 Jun 1856RCIN 2084341
Glass plate negative of a daguerreotype by Antoine François Jean Claudet taken on 30 June 1856. The image depicts a full-length group portrait of Queen Victoria (1819-1901), Albert Edward, Prince of Wales (1841-1910), Princess Alice (1843-1878) and the Duchess of Gloucester (1776-1857). The daguerreotype was taken at Gloucester House, the duchess' London residency.
The negative has been masked out, indicating the photographer's intention to crop the work to the smaller frame.
The glass plate negative has been photographed showing the coated side and therefore the image appears laterally reversed. Whilst the original daguerreotype is no longer part of the Collection, a print from this negative survives, RCIN 2106417. For a variant daguerreotype from the same session see RCIN 2106417.
Creator(s)
After Antoine François Jean Claudet (1797-1867) (photographer)
Unknown Person (photographer)
- Acquired by Queen Victoria and Prince Albert
Subject(s)
- Places
- Europe
- Great Britain
- England
- Greater London [England]
- London [Greater London]
- City of Westminster
- Piccadilly [London]
- Gloucester House [London]
- Piccadilly [London]
- City of Westminster
- London [Greater London]
- Greater London [England]
- England
- Great Britain
- Europe
- Places
