Glass plate negatives
Albert and Victoria’s collection of glass plate negatives show photographers’ working methods
LEONIDA CALDESI (1823-91)
The Royal Family
May 1857RCIN 2083578
Glass plate negative of the Royal Family at Osborne. From right to left: Princess Alice (face removed), Prince Arthur, Prince Albert, Albert Edward, Prince of Wales, Prince Leopold, Princess Louise, Queen Victoria holding the infant Princes Beatrice, Prince Alfred, Victoria, Princess Royal and Princess Louise.
Princes Alice's face was possibly scratched out from this negative because she moved during exposure and therefore was captured blurred, see RCIN 2917847. It seems that her face was then printed from another negative in order to produce the end result, RCIN 2106422.
The glass plate negative has been photographed showing the coated side and therefore the image appears laterally reversed.
Princes Alice's face was possibly scratched out from this negative because she moved during exposure and therefore was captured blurred, see RCIN 2917847. It seems that her face was then printed from another negative in order to produce the end result, RCIN 2106422.
The glass plate negative has been photographed showing the coated side and therefore the image appears laterally reversed.
Creator(s)
Leonida Caldesi (1823-91) (photographer)
Subject(s)
King Edward VII, King of the United Kingdom (1841-1910)Empress Friedrich, German Empress and Queen of Prussia (1840-1901)Princess Alice, Grand Duchess of Hesse & by Rhine (1843-78)Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh and Saxe-Coburg & Gotha (1844-1900)Princess Helena (1846-1923)Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll (1848-1939)Victoria, Queen of the United Kingdom (1819-1901)Prince Albert, Prince Consort (1819-61)Prince Arthur, 1st Duke of Connaught (1850-1942)Beatrice, Princess Henry of Battenberg (1857-1944)Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany (1853-84)- Acquired by Queen Victoria and Prince Albert
Subject(s)
- Places
- Europe
- Great Britain
- England
- Isle of Wight [England]
- Osborne Estate [Isle of Wight]
- Osborne House
- Lower Terrace [Osborne House]
- Osborne House
- Osborne Estate [Isle of Wight]
- Isle of Wight [England]
- England
- Great Britain
- Europe
- Arts, Recreation, Entertainment & Sport
- Plastic arts
- Sculpture
- Plastic arts
Object type(s)
- visual works
- photographs
- negatives
- glass plate negatives
- negatives
- photographs
- Places
