Glass plate negatives
Albert and Victoria’s collection of glass plate negatives show photographers’ working methods
ROGER FENTON (1819-69)
Queen Victoria, Prince Albert and the royal children
1854RCIN 2083183
Glass plate negative of of a full-length group portrait of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert with eight of their children. The group are posed, from right to leftt, Prince Leopold in a pram, Prince Alfred, Princess Helena, Princess Alice, Albert Edward, Prince of Wales, Prince Arthur, Princess Louise, Queen Victoria, Victoria, Princess Royal and Prince Albert. Photograph taken in the Buckingham Palace Gardens.
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 2106407.
Creator(s)
Roger Fenton (1819-69) (photographer)
Subject(s)
King Edward VII, King of the United Kingdom (1841-1910)Prince Albert, Prince Consort (1819-61)Victoria, Queen of the United Kingdom (1819-1901)Empress Friedrich, German Empress and Queen of Prussia (1840-1901)Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh and Saxe-Coburg & Gotha (1844-1900)Prince Arthur, 1st Duke of Connaught (1850-1942)Princess Alice, Grand Duchess of Hesse & by Rhine (1843-78)Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll (1848-1939)Princess Helena (1846-1923)- Acquired by Queen Victoria and Prince Victoria
Subject(s)
- People
- Children
Object type(s)
- visual works
- photographs
- negatives
- glass plate negatives
- negatives
- photographs
- People
