Photograph album featuring Victoria, Duchess of Kent and her family 1854-60
Leather bound album | 9.6 x 7.1 x 1.5 cm (album) | RCIN 2513450
Dr Ernst Becker (1826-88)
Photograph album featuring Victoria, Duchess of Kent and her family 1854-60
Dr Ernst Becker (1826-88)
Photograph album featuring Victoria, Duchess of Kent and her family 1854-60
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Small blue leather bound album with a 'V' cypher stamped in gold leaf on the front cover. The album features photographs of Victoria, Duchess of Kent alone and with members of her family including, Queen Victoria, Prince Albert and their children. A selection of the photographs were taken at Osborne and Buckingham Palace.
The album is inscribed with the birth and death dates of the Duchess of Kent and a phrase in German, translated in English to 'To do good was your aspiration and you were joy and happiness to us'.Provenance
Acquired by Queen Victoria and Prince Albert
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Medium and techniques
Leather bound album
Measurements
9.6 x 7.1 x 1.5 cm (album)