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ROGER FENTON (1819-69)

Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, Buckingham Palace

11 May 1854

RCIN 2906513

Queen Victoria and Prince Albert are wearing court dress, having just attended a Drawing Room, a formal ceremony at St James’s Palace in which people were presented to the Queen. This image, one of a set of at least six, is the first photograph of the Queen as a reigning monarch rather than as wife or mother. 

Commissioned by Queen Victoria

No. 370


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