Albert and Victoria’s collection of glass plate negatives show photographers’ working methods
WILLIAM BAMBRIDGE (1819-79)
The royal children in mourning
Mar 1862RCIN 2083688
Glass plate negative of Queen Victoria's and Prince Albert's daughters grouped around a bust of their father. The phototgraph was taken in the grounds of Windsor Castle and the princesses are wearing mourning clothes. They are arranged, from righ to left, Princess Alice, Princess Helena, Princess Beatrice, Princess Victoria of Prussia and Princess Louise.
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 2900549.
Creator(s)
William Bambridge (1819-79) (photographer)
Subject(s)
Empress Friedrich, German Empress and Queen of Prussia (1840-1901)Princess Alice, Grand Duchess of Hesse & by Rhine (1843-78)Princess Helena (1846-1923)Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll (1848-1939)Beatrice, Princess Henry of Battenberg (1857-1944)Prince Albert, Prince Consort (1819-61)- Acquired by Queen Victoria
Subject(s)
- Social sciences
- Ethnology
- Mourning
- Ethnology
- Places
- Europe
- Great Britain
- England
- Berkshire [England]
- Windsor [Berkshire]
- Windsor Castle
- Interiors of Windsor Castle
- Windsor Castle
- Windsor [Berkshire]
- Berkshire [England]
- England
- Great Britain
- Europe
Object type(s)
- visual works
- photographs
- negatives
- glass plate negatives
- negatives
- photographs
- Social sciences
