Five children of King Edward VII,1871.
Hills and Saunders Limited [photographers]
Category
Photographs
Date
1871 - 1872
Materials
Card
Measurements
Card size 102 x 62 mm
Order this imageCollection
Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1519407
Summary
Monochrome albumen carte de visite, group portrait of five children of King Edward VII). Left to right: Princess Maude, Prince Albert Victor, Princess Victoria, Princess Louise, Prince George. Both princes wearing highland dress and princesses in fur-trimmed dress. The print is mounted on heavy card. Details printed on recto: Registered Hills & Saunders, 36 Porchester Terrace, W. Handwritten script on recto: 'Prince Edw' & K.George V.' On verso: studio mark 'By appointment to her Majesty, Hills & Saunders, Photographers, London, also at Eton, Harrow, Oxford, Cambridge.' 'All communications respecting this photograph to be addressed to 36 Porchester Terrace' Card blind-stamped 'Marion & Co/London.'
Provenance
Part of the Fenton Collection. A gift from British Film Institute in 2017. From 1986-1999, part of BFI collection for the Museum of the Moving Image. BFI purchased collection in 1986 from James Fenton's Museum of Photography, Port Erin, Isle of Man 1976-1986
Makers and roles
Hills and Saunders Limited [photographers] , photographic studio