Glass plate negatives
Albert and Victoria’s collection of glass plate negatives show photographers’ working methods
Household staff
c. 1857RCIN 2082964
Glass plate negative of a full-length group portrait of (from right to left): Mr Ernst Becker (1826-88); Colonel Charles Phipps (1801-66); Miss MacDonald; Lady Churchill; George Leveson Gower (1815-91), the 2nd Earl of Granville and George Hamilton Gordon (1784-1860), the Earl of Aberdeen. The group are posed on open ground with trees in the background.
The glass plate negative has been photographed showing the coated side and therefore the image appears laterally reversed. Prints from this negative do not seem to exist in the Collection, however a variant from the same sitting is represented by RCIN 2160336.
Creator(s)
Thomas Pearce (active c. 1850s) (photographer)
- Acquired by Queen Victoria and Prince Albert
Subject(s)
- Places
- Europe
- Great Britain
- Scotland
- Aberdeenshire [Scotland]
- Balmoral Castle [Aberdeenshire]
- Aberdeenshire [Scotland]
- Scotland
- Great Britain
- Europe
- Places