Photographs by Prince Alfred. c.1860-65
Leather bound album | 30.1 x 22.5 cm (page dimensions) | RCIN 2917599
Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh and Saxe-Coburg & Gotha (1844-1900)
Photographs by Prince Alfred c.1860-65
Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh and Saxe-Coburg & Gotha (1844-1900)
Photographs by Prince Alfred c.1860-65
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Brown leather-bound album containing photographs (RCINs 2917600 - 2917821) taken by Prince Alfred, later Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (1844-1900). The album is decorated with raised geometric patterns around the edges of the front and back cover and is silk-lined. The albums contains various portraits, and a range of landscape views, some of which were taken in South Africa.
In July to September 1860 Prince Alfred paid an official visit to South Africa while serving as a midshipman on board HMS Euryalus. His tour took him through the Cape Colony, Eastern Cape, Natal and the Orange Free State. From Port Elizabeth he proceeded by land in a strenuous trip of five weeks by mule wagon and on horse-back which formed the so-called 'White Train'. The Prince, who had learnt the rudiments of photography before the visit, took with him a double stereoscopic box camera and other photographic materials and equipment.Provenance
Compiled by Prince Alfred
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Leather bound album
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30.1 x 22.5 cm (page dimensions)
31.4 x 23.6 x 3.6 cm (album)
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