The yacht at Ithica [HMY Osborne, Ithaca] 2 Jun 1862
Albumen print mounted on card | 17.3 x 28.6 cm (image) | RCIN 2701024
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After leaving Athens on 31 May, the Royal Yacht stopped at several Greek islands on the way to France from where the Prince would travel overland to Britain. On Ithaca, the island said to be the homeland of Homer’s Odysseus, the Prince visited the Cave of Odysseus. Here Odysseus was supposed to have slept after his return to the island, following the Trojan War and his ten-year absence. The photograph is unsigned and uncaptioned. See RCIN 2861709 for another print of this image (which is signed and captioned in the negative). Ithaka, an island in the Ionian sea and part of Greece, is associate with Homer's Ithaka and the story of Odysseus.
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Acquired by the Prince of Wales (later King Edward VII), 1862
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Albumen print mounted on card
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17.3 x 28.6 cm (image)
47.0 x 58.5 cm (mount)
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